England Day 3: Oxford (Part 2)

 

The above street and I are NOT friends. They are all over Oxford, and while they are beautiful, they are are extremely difficult to walk on gracefully. We traveled down one of these cobbled streets for quite a ways to get to the "lodge" of Oriel College of Oxford. "Lodge" is the name for the entrance to college; carried over from centuries ago. This is the arch with crests over the lodge door.

Upon entering the quad, you see

This is as far as most people get to see of the many colleges in Cambridge and Oxford. However, we got the insiders tour with a professor named Bill Woods. We got to see the chapel,

 the dining hall, where 6 nights a week there is a formal dinner, and

 the faculty meeting room. In this room, there are a couple of boxes from the 1600s, which we in the USA would think is really remarkable and need to treasured. However, At Oriel College, these engraved and ornate boxes hold scrap paper and extra pencils.

After the tour ended, several of us went to The Turf Tavern. This tavern is a fairly famous tavern where Oxford students do some silly things, including the Rhodes Scholar, Bill Clinton, who smoked but didn't inhale.