Day One: Reading and Oxford
So, here I will begin to recount our trip.
We flew from Regina to Toronto, and from there onto Heathrow airport in London, arriving on Thursday, May 4th. Jen came to meet us at the airport, and from there we took the bus to the Reading. We dropped off our luggage at her place, and then took the train to Oxford, where we spent the afternoon.
Since we were there in the middle of exam time, the colleges were closed to the public, but we did tour around the exterior of some of them.
We also returned to two museums Jen and I visited on my list trip to England, the Oxford Museum of Natural History, and the connected Pitts River Museum, which is an archaeological/anthropological museum. Both are very cool, with lots of neat things to see. Here are a few pictures from these two sites:
Here is a rather large fossil ammonite. We were hoping to find similar samples during our later visit to Lyme Regis.
More fossils, this time of plesiosaurs (I believe).
The above image is from the Pitts River museum, featuring a very intricately carved set of concentric ivory balls. The picture truly doesn't do it justice.
This really gives only a bare glimpse of that afternoon, but it's impractical to put up more than a few photos per post here. As previously mentioned, I hope to put up some of my pictures on Flickr, or a similar site, and perhaps will get to share them with some of you in person. Nex on our tour: Ireland!
We flew from Regina to Toronto, and from there onto Heathrow airport in London, arriving on Thursday, May 4th. Jen came to meet us at the airport, and from there we took the bus to the Reading. We dropped off our luggage at her place, and then took the train to Oxford, where we spent the afternoon.
Since we were there in the middle of exam time, the colleges were closed to the public, but we did tour around the exterior of some of them.
We also returned to two museums Jen and I visited on my list trip to England, the Oxford Museum of Natural History, and the connected Pitts River Museum, which is an archaeological/anthropological museum. Both are very cool, with lots of neat things to see. Here are a few pictures from these two sites:
Here is a rather large fossil ammonite. We were hoping to find similar samples during our later visit to Lyme Regis.
More fossils, this time of plesiosaurs (I believe).
The above image is from the Pitts River museum, featuring a very intricately carved set of concentric ivory balls. The picture truly doesn't do it justice.
This really gives only a bare glimpse of that afternoon, but it's impractical to put up more than a few photos per post here. As previously mentioned, I hope to put up some of my pictures on Flickr, or a similar site, and perhaps will get to share them with some of you in person. Nex on our tour: Ireland!
posted by Matt at 6:24 a.m.
1 Comments:
Hey, those ivory balls are like ones we have here in the National Palace Museum. They're really cool, and some of them are so little you have to look at them through a magnifying glass. Fun.
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