So I realized last night thanks to my mom that I forgot to explain the title of my post yesterday...oops haha. Mind the gap is what they say when you get off the train to warn you that there is a gap between the train and the platform. I didn't have anything witty to put for my title yesterday so that's all I came up with ha.
We ventured up to Oxford today and it was actually surprisingly really fun! We had to be up and ready by 8:15 which was a bit of a struggle but Starbucks solves everything so I made it haha. The only annoying part was that we were literally all there before 8:30 and the bus was late...lame. The bus ride was about an hour and the British countryside is beautiful! The rolling hills were so green so the ride was very nice. We finally arrived to Oxford and got off the bus and started to walk around and explore the city. I have to say, I never knew that Oxford was actually like a little city. I actually really ended up loving the city as a whole because it reminded me of a big college town and it was SO pretty! The atmosphere was great and there was a large downtown full shops and cute cafes and restaurants. They even had a TopShop and Primark which I found really interesting but cool because they basically have everything there for them.
Before we actually saw the downtown area, we walked around all the different colleges and old buildings that have been there for such a long time. There are actually 37 different colleges at Oxford...I had no idea that there were that many colleges and I honestly thought that Oxford was just one college. Shows you how much I knew about Oxford haha. The oldest library in London is located in Oxford but I honestly forgot what it was called. Our tour guide was really informative but I honestly had no idea about half the people he was talking about so it was hard to pay attention haha. I felt bad because he really did know a lot but like none of us knew who he was talking about to we were a little add ha. We walked around for about an hour with the tour guide and then they gave us like a 2 hr break for lunch and to walk around. They had a little market that I ended up getting my lunch at and it was delicious! I had a combo of cuscous, a slaw salad, fish, and roasted veggies like sweet potato and squash...it was nom and different than anything that I've had here.
We did a little shopping while we ate and they had so many cute little stores! I found my stereotypical Oxford t-shirt but I need t-shirts because I didn't pack enough and I figured I could wear it in London and not be judged haha. Also t-shirts are always good souvenirs so I didn't care. I made my first purchases at a store called River Island so I was happy ha. After all the shopping we met back up again to take a tour of Christ's Church. This is the church where parts of Harry Potter were filmed and modeled after so it was really cool to walk through and see all that! There is also a ton of history surrounding the church so that was interesting to hear about as well. The story of Alice and Wonderland was based on the daughter of the dean of the school...never knew that either! Funny how Harry Potter and Alice in Wonderland both have roots in Oxford. C.S. Lewis and J.R. Tolkien also spent time in Oxford so Oxford is just full of the inspiration for popular stories. We all loaded up the bus after the tour of the church and began our trek back to good ole London. It was a solid nap time so that was nice haha. I think that we are going to try to go to Wimbledon tomorrow so it will be an early morning because in order to get tickets, we have to get in the "que" really early so that we can buy tickets. We'll see if it happens though but I really want to go! Either way we will definitely have something fun to do tomorrow so I'm not worried...and no rain today! Well at least yet haha. We'll see about tonight though! Cheers!
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