Oxford through my camera's lens

Ooo-kay, I finally wandered around for a little bit yesterday with a camera in hand and so you guys get to see some pictures of my dorm, college and the town in general.



So this is my dorm- The Isis Hotel. It's not much to look at but the rooms inside are pretty nice. Some more about that next time however.
This is my college's graveyard and also happens to be the only place on campus where smoking is allowed. The part of a a 12th (or maybe 14th?) century church you see is currently our library. It is a beautiful building although only a small part of it is visible in this picture.


This is the street leading to my college but it also happens to be a good example of a small Oxford street.



This alley is actually the only entrance to a tiny square with several pubs in it. I need to go check them out sometime soon because they looked really nice.

Buildings in Oxford are happily unconformist when compared to the endless rows of identical homes in London. True, they don't match in the slightest and you can often see a stone building easily twice as old as the US standing next to a pink aberration built only a couple of years ago but that has it's charm... I guess.


More than half of the traffic in Oxford consists of bikers and most of the rest consists of buses and cabs. What this means is that sights like these are very common all over the town. I'd be tempted to get a bike myself but the cheapest one I've seen so far that's my size was 100 pounds... I can walk anywhere in 30 minutes anyway.



This is a view of the main quad of Christophe's college. A lot larger than mine and also one of the newer ones- it's barely 150 years old I think.


And quite unrelated but I still feel the need to brag about it- Christophe and I cooked last night. I hadn't eaten anything quite as delicious since I left home (true, I've mostly survived on fast food since I came in the UK, but still...). It just makes me envy him even more for having a kitchen next door instead of two floors away.

Okay, enough pictures for one day. I am also starting to catch up with my life- a couple more days of daily posts and I might actually run out things to write about. But then again, I'd have more than enough stuff to do over the week so I am not really concerned about not having to spend time blogging :)