First Tour of the City

Today after orientation we set off on a guided tour of four colleges.  While I usually prefer to do exploration by myself, there's almost no way to just walk into an Oxford College and start taking pictures.  So I relied on our tour guide's extensive network of friends, and it paid off in unrestricted access to the gardens, churches and quads of four gorgeous colleges here in town.  We visited Jesus, Oriel, Christ Church and Exeter colleges today and the views were out of control. 

Here's one from the Exeter Gardens

On the right side there is the iconic Radcliffe Camera.  This next one is from the same gardens, but looking at Exeter's Dining Hall, which happens to be Hogwart's Dining Hall too.

There was no way to get into the individual college libraries without special dispensation or an ID card from that specific college.  Whoever said that "Knowledge is power, guard it well.", clearly had a huge influence on this town.  Each library is a veritable fortress, with many vigilant guards along the parapets.  It would take some epic ninja skills to sneak into any of em.


Exeter was definitely the highlight of the tour today.  Some other fun stuff popped up though :)

  They do exist!