"The City of Dreaming Spires" a Oxford Travel Page by jo104

Fancy a day outside of London then this may be just the place to visit, a historical university town steeped in acedemic history and indeed it has been a home to Royalty and best of all its only an hours train ride from Paddington, London.

Besides this city hostin 39 independent colleges it also is home to the 400 year old Bodleian library which is famed for being one of the greatest libraries in the world and with 120 miles of occupied shelving who would argue. Incidently it is in this library that they filmed the library scene in Harry Potter with Hermoinie.

Currently there are 20,000 students studying in Oxford coming from 138 countries and Oxford is noted to have the lowest college drop out rate. Of course some of their graduates go on to be great people and here is just a small list Michael Palin, Rowan Atkinson, Tony Benn, David Cameron, Bill Clinton, Richard Curtis, Hugh Grant (wonder if they knew each other then) Professor Stephen Hawking, C.S Lewis and JRR Tolkien - of course this is just a small list from the 20th centuary.

So this is another city Han & I have explored together and it was a great day out comparable definetly to Cambridge which as another university town is great. Unfortunately we did not get to go punting as there was far too much of a queue but we did stroll by the river & watch some silly people make a hash of it.