Exploring Oxford

We arrived in Oxford early in the afternoonnd after negotiating with an angry parking ticket machine, we made it to the Ashmolean museum.

There was heaps of Egyptian, Greek and Chinese artifacts. There was also some more modern history including a number of Stradivarius violins, including the Messiah which is famous partly because it is in such good condition, leading some people to doubt it was hundreds of years old. This violin was donated to the Ashmolean on the condition it was never played again.

Then we walked over to Christ Church College, one of the most well known colleges which form Oxford University. The college is a beautiful old building and the large dining hall is now more famous as being Hogwarts Hall from the Harry Porter movies.

The girls also stood on the steps where Professor McGonagall welcomed new students to Hogwarts School of Magic and we saw the courtyard where Harry learnt to fly on a broom and play quidditch.

Afterwards we wandered the streets of Oxford, getting a feel for the university town. The girls walked through Radcliffe's Camera