England - Tuesday

This is Oxford, which I really liked.  Pictures.

 


From England-Tuesday, posted by Emily Simmons on 6/07/2011 (36 items)

I thought I'd be able to remember the different buildings we looked at on our tour of...

Ooh, I know this one. It's Exeter College. The colleges are where students live, it...

That's an old, uh, wall or something. It's the oldest wall of Exeter, or something l...

Sure looks old, don't it?

Still at Exeter.

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This is the organ in the Exeter chapel, or more accurately, the pipes of the organ. ...

That's a cool old tower.

Oh, I know this one. It's a dome they built for Shelley...or was it Keats? Hold on,...

Some more lovely old architechture.

All Soul's College, maybe? I was standing at the back of the tour and the guide was ...

Yeah, I don't know what this is. But it's great!

These are grotesques. They're like gargoyles, except they're different in some way t...

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This is the Bridge of Sighs, copied after a bridge in Venice. The bridge in venice h...

Apparently I'll take a picture of any old thing.

Here's the bridge of sighs with some lady's hair in the way.

Again with the hair! Ugh!

Forget it. I didn't even want to take this picture anymore.

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I'm 99% sure this is inside the Divinity School.

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Yep, Divinity School. Where all sorts of young, brilliant people used to meet to dis...

Ceilings are the best, aren't they?? Seriously, this is 400 years old. I love that.

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This is the Convocation House inside the Divinity School. Kings held Parliament ther...

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That's the view of the chair from the next room over, the court room.

Someone should really teach me how to hold a camera straight.

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This might be part of the Bodleian library. The columns are neo-classical roman colu...

Must be in the neighborhood of the library.

Back to random old buildings.

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England - Monday

Mom and I headed out on a whirlwind trip to the almost-South of England.  We ended up driving 10 or so hours over two days, or more accurately, Mom drove ten or so hours.  We went to Warwick Castle, Stratford-upon-Avon, Avebury, and Stonehenge.  And it's almost 12:30 in the morning, and I want to go to sleep, so without further ado, pictures.

"Warwick Castle, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Avebury, Stonehenge"

From England - Monday, posted by Emily Simmons on 6/07/2011 (58 items)

So this is Warwick Castle. It was originally built in 1068 by William the Conqueror.

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I think I took five pictures of this part of the castle, called the Mound. I love th...

We missed the jousting tournament by one day, dang it, but here's a fake knight in sh...

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You know what I love? Old churches. Love them to bits.

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The view from the top of the Mound. Quaint, isn't it? Makes you think that life mus...

I'm slightly blurry, but that's me in front of Warwick. Pronounced warrick, btw. Do...

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Hey there's that church again.

The towers are the oldest parts of the castle, dating back to the 1300's.

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Doesn't this landscape just look right for having a castle? I think so.

That's my mom!

That's a nice one.

Now we're on top of the tower, or one of them at least. Once you started climbing, y...

I think that's my favorite of the many pictures I took of the mound.

The problem with Warwick is that it's a little bit Disney-fied. They're trying to ma...

Ah, that's better. From the top of the towers you can get a better look at this fanc...

Teensy weensy stairs for my big feet. Going down was more treacherous than going up....

Or is this my favorite? Hmmmm...

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The parting shot at Warwick. Can't believe I didn't take more pictures of the towers...

So this is Anne Hathaway's cottage, or part of it at least. My camera doesn't have a...

I cannot get enough of the trees. And for my neighbors who wonder why I keep plantin...

This is Avebury. It's a stone circle that's theoretically a little younger (500 year...

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This stone circle is so large that part of the town was built inside it, it's 420 met...

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Part of the circle had a whole flock of sheep grazing. And a whole flock's worth of ...

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How'd you like to have a piece of a 4000 year old possibly religious monument in your...

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Hmmm, I'm not sure what I was trying to take a picture of. Maybe that vaguely church...

And there she is, Stonehenge.

And there she is, my mom.

It's so cool to see something that you've only ever seen pictures of. Although now t...

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I think this one's my favorite. The lighting's a little spooky. No, it's Mysterious...

That lump over to the left of center is a barrow, a big burial mound.

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The sun came out at the end of the day.

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