Last December, during my visit to England, my best friend and I decided to celebrate her daughter’s birthday by taking her on a weekend trip to Blenheim palace. To maximize our time at the palace, we decided to leave London on friday evening and spend the night in Oxford, before traveling onto Woodstock early the next morning. Though we hardly had much time to explore the city, we did manage to go on a couple of walks on saturday morning. The skies were cloudy that day and it felt like it was going to rain any minute so the city looked quite gloomy. However, I am glad my friend’s daughter did not seem put off by the weather, and the walk seemed to reinforce her fascination with Oxford university, where she wants to study when she eventually finishes secondary school in a few years.

This post is a photo tour of some of the highlights we passed by during our walk.

Ashmolean museum

The Martyrs’ memorial and St. Giles

The church of St Mary Magdalen

Faculty of History

The back of Oxford Castle

Nuffield College

Start of Broad Street

Anna’s hand carved wooden spoons stall at the corner of Broad street

Arts and Crafts market

Radcliffe Camera

Old Bodleian library quadrangle

Another view of the Bodleian library

Radcliffe square

Hertford bridge, also referred to as the bridge of sighs

Weston library

What was the highlight of your visit to Oxford? What would you like to explore on your first/ next visit to the city?

[Linking this post to The Weekly Postcard, Weekend Travel Inspiration and City Tripping #72]