First Day In the City

Today was my very first day in the city of Oxford. Nellie and I set out to explore after breakfast. We had no idea where we were going; the goal was to see where we would end up (and not get to lost!). For our first time in town, we covered a lot of ground. Amazingly, every building in Oxford is hundreds of years old. The Catholic church St. Mary the Virgin had stones with dates as far back as the 1600's! There is a lot of history packed into the walls and streets of this town.

As we walked, I would glance up and read random signs that would say things like "Robert Hooke discovered cellular organisms using the first microscope on this sight in 1665." These markers were scattered throughout the city.

One of the coolest things that we "discovered" was the covered market. For those of you in the Ann Arbor area, it's a lot like the Kerry town market. You can purchase everything from fruits and nuts, meat, or shoes. There was even a "clothes line" on which rabbits, pheasants, and chickens hung.

We also passed Magdalen college, the school at which C.S. Lewis taught. It is one of the largest schools at Oxford. As it was closed to the public, we were unable to go in. We did take a picture though!

Walking was the activity of the day. Tomorrow we will be attending breakfast at the Crick Road house (where the other Oxford students are staying) and then going to church. After that we will have tea (an English necessity for any and all occasions) and then church again.

That's it for now. More to come later!