Oxford

So it has been a pretty crazy few weeks. We've got three main posts that we'll try to get up. First is our trip tp Oxford. Our friends from KC Eric and Anne have a car, so the 4 of us drove up to Oxford to visit the town and university.

It was maybe the worst day weatherwise since we've moved here, so its a good thing we didn't spend the whole day outside. Oh wait....

Both couples forgot our cameras, but Eric did manage to get some from his phone, so apologies for the mobile-phone quality.

So it was freezing cold and windy and spitting rain all day, but we had a fun time anyway. We took a walking tour of the city and school which was very informative. The school is very interesting in that there is no central campus. There are 38 colleges that are a part of the university, but they are all autonomous - if you go there you are accepted to one of the colleges and you live at the college and have all classes there. Each college also has their own chapel. The colleges are interspersed throughout the town, so as you walk the streets there will be a shop, then a college, then a set of restaurants, then another college. It was pretty amazing, and weird to think that the first people started going to school there 1,000 years ago. Also, something like 8 of the last 10 Prime Ministers went there, and we saw the window from which Bill Clinton didn't inhale.

Not too much else to say there - a pretty cool university that I wish I could have gotten into.

And in case you thought that the US was the only place hit with tough economic times: