{"id":2463,"date":"2014-11-12T23:49:58","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T04:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/?p=2463"},"modified":"2014-11-12T23:49:58","modified_gmt":"2014-11-13T04:49:58","slug":"old-and-learned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seakingdom.net\/blog\/2014\/11\/12\/old-and-learned\/","title":{"rendered":"Old and Learned"},"content":{"rendered":"

My first morning in England I had porridge for breakfast at my friend’s place in Didcot, and then we headed off to Oxford by train.<\/p>\n

We first visited the Ashmolean museum<\/a>, where we looked at a lot Greek and Roman items (large statues as well as tiny, intricate jewelry), as well as some South Asian and Middle Eastern stuff.\u00a0 After that we went by Blackwell’s<\/a> book store, and got lunch in the cafe there.<\/p>\n

Much of the city is the university, and the buildings are quite interesting (and old).\u00a0 I don’t recall what most of them were, but here are some of the places we passed while walking around:<\/p>\n

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Some of the buildings have statuary on them:<\/p>\n

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Or in front of them:<\/p>\n

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After lunch, we made our way to the Pitt Rivers museum<\/a>, an old-style museum that is full of display cases crowded together, where the items in a given case are of similar type, though they may be from different cultures.\u00a0 It’s certainly organized differently from most museums one might go to.<\/p>\n

On the way there, I saw these flowers growing out of a wall:<\/p>\n

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This is the Natural History Museum, through which one must pass to get to the Pitt Rivers:<\/p>\n

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We had time to look through most of the Pitt Rivers, but not to look through the Natural History museum, as they both were closing at 4:00.<\/p>\n

More buildings from continued walking in the late afternoon:<\/p>\n

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Some grotesques on the side of a building:<\/p>\n

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Cobblestones:<\/p>\n

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This is apparently known as the Bridge of Sighs (not to be confused with the one in Venice):<\/p>\n

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Here’s an interesting clock:<\/p>\n

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I liked the light on the street in this picture:<\/p>\n

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We had dinner at a pub called the King’s Arms.\u00a0 I had rabbit pie with mashed potatoes, which was quite a lot of food.\u00a0 I had never had rabbit before, but found it pretty tasty.<\/p>\n

Not long after dinner, we took the train back down to Didcot.\u00a0 I had plans to head back up to Oxford myself the next day to see the city by water.<\/p>\n

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