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Hello again!
Note the picture to the side: I took this. Yep, I know. Amazing. It is the Christ Church buildings.
Yesterday I went to Oxford for the day. After a freeeezing week in London, it was no different except the sun was shining! What a miracle!! Anyway, after I went to the wrong train station and had to wait 1/2 an hour for the train, I was on my way on a tiny 4-carriage, all-stops train.
Before I talk about Oxford, I have to tell a little story about a box of Smarties I was eating on the train (for what is a long train ride without a bit of chocolate??). Well, I flicked out 4 Smarties, and there were 2 green and 2 purple ones. Then I flicked out another 4 and there were 2 pink and 2 brown ones. How amazing?! What are the chances?? (Rhetorical, I don't actually care if anyone can tell me this).
Anyway, once I got to Oxford I wandered down into the town centre, and it was such a vibrant and bustling main street (or 2 main streets, actually). There were people everywhere, mostly students, and the lines in coffee shops were pouring out onto the streets. I wandered down to Christ Church College (which is where the main Hall from Harry Potter is), and it was such an amazing lot of buildings. All the colleges seemed to have at least one turret so all of them looked like little castles. Or big castles. I didn\'t go in to Christ Church because the line was a gazillion kms long and it was too cold to stand and wait. But one of the big gates was open when I was walking past so I had a peek inside and saw a massive courtyard made of perfectly mown lawns and beautiful sandstone walls. I walked around the perimeter of Christ Church to the Botanic Gardens, and they were really beautiful. When I walked in it was like I'd entered the Secret Garden, and I felt like asking someone if I could have a piece of earth to call my own. Despite there being other people walking around (so not extremely secretive) and being the end of winter it wasn't exactly an explosion of blooms and wildlife, but it was very magical and beautiful in a dark and mysterious way.
After the Secret Garden I walked out and had a look at Magdalen College (yep Fatnut, where you should be) and then Oxford College and had a bit of a wander around the back streets. The whole city is just beautiful sandstone buildings with amazingly intricate details, and it's funny that it's all really there for the uni and the surrounding colleges, which was obvious with the amount of students walking around.
Well, that was Oxford, and I would thoroughly recommend to anyone wanting a day trip. Just go to Paddington Station though, not Victoria....
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