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: Fletcher Warren, senior History and Business & Political Science major at Bethel University.

: My wardrobe at St. Michael’s.

: Bekah and Christ Church, seen from the Christ Church Meadows.

: The old entrance to the School of Grammar and History library (School’s Quad, Bodleian)

: The Tower of the Five Orders. Each column is in a successive classical style: Tuscan, Doric, Ionic, Corinthian and Composite. King James I sits near the top, surrounded by angels. (School’s Quadrangle, Bodleian Library)

: The Light of the World (William Hunt), Keble College Chapel

: Dinner at the Eagle and Child (or, as the Inklings were fond of calling it, the Bird and Baby).

: Bekah and a duck, Oxford Canal

: One of many house boats in Oxford Canal

: Christ Church Meadow

: Oxford Botanical Gardens with Magdalen College tower in the background

: Bekah with St. Hilda’s College in the background

: The gardens

: An obligatory 1914-2014 picture

: Balloon over Merton College

: Bath Abbey

: The pumphouse.

: The baths. The lowest level is Roman, the balcony is 19th century, and the Abbey is largely 11th century.

: A 19th century statue adding Roman flavour to the baths

: The baths.

: 2,000 year old Roman walkway

: “Ecce quod bonum et quod iucundum est” (Behold that which is good and pleasing,” if my Latin serves me.

: On the way to the Circus we passed a branch of the noted Saville Row (London) tailor Gieves and Hawkes!

: The Circus

: Queens Square, also by John Wood the Younger

: The view from my window.

: The dining hall.

: Bekah, her roomate (front centre) and two friends walk

: A classic car seen by the Radcliffe Camera

: Image of deity (likely Neptune)

: The Weinerhorn – Fletcher’s favourite.

: Trumpets

: The staircase (familiar from Harry Potter films), Christ Church

: The roof of the dining hall. It’s hard to convey how rich and chocolatey this wood was.

: The dining hall

: Evidence of anti-Peel sentiment (19th century PM), Christ Church

: Tom Tower, designed by Sir Christopher Wren

: Down the nave

: Evidence of reformation shenanigins

: The alter

: Christ Church cathedral ceiling

: The nave floor, Christ Church

: The Christ Church organ

: Stained glass, Christ Church

: Three glass panels that contain anti-royal stories (they shouldn’t have survived the reformation, but did). The middle shows the murder of the cleric Thomas Becket at the bequest of King Henry. These are displayed at a college founded by a cardinal Thomas who was an enemy of a King Henry. It’s apparent why their survival is impressive.

: Peckwater Quad

: A military band plays in the streets. Neither Bekah or Fletcher know the songs.

: University Church of St. Mary the Virgin interior.

: Cloister

: Lovely greens in the cloister quad.

: The Magdalen flag.

: Detail of cloister

: Looking into the Cloister quad

: The dining hall. More comforting than the larger Keble and Christ Church halls. It also smelled wonderful.

: At Magdalen College. A very kind Englishman asked us whether we’d like a photo. After framing us, he said, “think of money.” The second photo was prefaced by, “think of cheese.”

: Fireworks celebrating Oxford Open Doors

: The top of the front facade

: Left transept and crossing tower

: Detail of the left transept facade

: The facade of the left transept

: The Lady Chapel exterior

: In front of the front facade central door

: The crossing tower from the graveyard

: The serpentine arch, located just before the crossing.

: The Great War commemoration chapel

: Roll of Summerset County dead.

: Candles for peace in the Middle East

: Ceiling of the Lady Chapel

: Toward the front facade, down the nave.

: Transept

: Looking toward the front facade.

: The Library

: Aisle of a transept.

: In the aisle of a transept.

: In the graveyard.

: The ceiling of the nave.

: Looking up to the ceiling of the Chapel House (the place of business in the cathedral)

: Bekah and Nate at the Chapter House central pillar

: It’s from this door that one first views the entire cathedral of Wells. The bench just to the left of the arch was historically (15th century?) the place for alms-beggers to sit.

: Our guide

: A side entrance to the left aisle

: The nave, looking toward the left transept.

: Looking up the nave toward the choir. The large stone tower visible through the second arch marks the start of the choir.

: The nave.

: The monk’s refectory (dining hall)

: The location of Arthur’s tomb after it was enshrined in the cathedral.

: Standing near the right transept looking toward the apse across the choir.

: Messiah Strad

: Peter Paul Rubens painting

: Marble table

: Lust for Liberty: The Politics of Social Revolt in Medieval Europe, 1200-1425 – Samuel K. Cohn

: Radcliffe Camera stairwell ceiling

: Radcliffe Camera stairwell

: Fletcher finds his home

: Rather ugly (and characteristic) 1970s(?) architecture in Jericho

: Crossing the tracks

: Crossing the Thames

: A small (probably manmade) lake the feeds off of the Thames is a popular spot for houseboats to anchor

: Fletcher approaches…

: Geese.

: “Here Bessie!”

: Stepping light among cow pies

: A close encounter

: Bekah stands proud

: A flower growing on the bridge crossing the railyard

: Looking down Walton Street

: The headquarters of the Oxford University Press

: Tudor brickwork

: Tudor brickwork

: Chimneys

: The Cloister Green

: The Great Fountain

: Looking east toward the Jubilee Fountain

: Looking west toward the palace in the Great Fountain garden

: Looking north, with the Georgian facade in the distance

: Tudor wine

: Tudor wine cellar

: The Georgian stair

: “Where are you from?” “Minnesota.” “Where is that?” “The new world.” “Oh, you must mean the Spanish colonies!”

: In the Georgian apartments

: This is carved wood, a design which runs nearly fifty feet in length around the fireplace

: A throne fit for a king

: Georgian portion of the palace

: In the courtyard

: The great hall ceiling

: In the great hall

: In the great hall

: Ceiling detail

: A room off of the Great Hall

: Servants dining room. Everything in the room is 16th century

: One of my two clandestine photos of the chapel

: Looking south along the east side of the Privy Garden walls

: Looking southwest across the Privy Gardens

: The Privy Gardens

: Looking north toward the Georgian facade

: The Knot Garden, looking south

: The Pond Gardens

: In front of the westernmost Pond Garden

: Butcher room

: Rhodes: The Race for Africa

: Rhodes Scholars, Oxford, and the Creation of an American Elite

: The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power

: The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe

: Hampton Court Chapel – Arthistory390

: The altar – Hampton Court Palace

: Chapel ceiling – Hampton Court Palace

: Waterloo Station

: Sluice gate for the Meadow – it is flooded in the winter

: The Venician buildings from across the Meadow

: Front to rear, Magdalen Tower, (then north across the High Street) the steeple of St. Mary the Virgin, and the Radcliffe Camera

: Magdalen Tower

: Christ Church Cathedral in the fore, Tom Tower in the background

: The Venician buildings

: Olive oils, rapeseed oils, and vinegars

: Wines, Liqueurs, gins, vodkas, and scotches

: St. Michael’s of the North Gate

: The door Thomas Cranmer and Hugh Latimer were led through to their execution at the stake; Bekah is sad for them, posthumously.

: (L to R) Sheldonian Theatre (copper dome), Exeter College Chapel, Radcliffe Camera, St. Mary the Virgin

: (L to R) Balliol College Chapel, Balliol Gatehouse

: Lovely fields far away

: Christ Church Tom Tower, looking down Cornmarket Street

: All Saints Church

: Radcliffe Camera

: Wesley Memorial Church (foreground), Nuffield College (background)

: At the top!

: Balliol College Hall (foreground), Keble College Chapel (in distance). I think this perfectly captures the hulking, dark gothic look the builders of Keble sought to emulate.

: Exeter College Chapel (L), Radcliffe Camera (R)

: Roof of St. Michael’s of the North Gate

: Magdalen College Chapel

: Magdalen Chapel

: Cloisters from the ground

: The Cloisters from above

: Up the tower

: Founders Tower

: Exterior of the cone

: Animal shadows in the Cloisters

: Magdalen Tower over the Hall, Oscar Wilde Room, and Old Kitchen

: In the side gardens by the Old Kitchen

: Against the outside walls of the Cloisters, by the Cherwell

: Coming around the Cloisters onto the New Building Lawn

: In front of New Building

: Addison’s Walk

: The stag

: We match!

: Magdalen tower across the Water Meadow

: Horse chestnuts everywhere (and buckeyes too)

: Crossing the river Cherwell

: Fellow’s Garden

: These leaves were very thick and waxy

: Magdalen College gate with gummy

: Tolkien used to walk here; Mallorn tree?

: Waiting for food

: Awkward duck

: Trapped!

: Buckingham Palace

: Gate to Green Park, north of Buckingham

: Will they have to change the thousands of these when the Queen dies?

: The Victoria Memorial in front of Buckingham

: In St. James’s Park

: Outside of the Churchill War Rooms

: For next time…

: Big Ben

: Winston Churchill

: The British Bulldog (and imitator)

: Stripped bike

: The Eye of London

: The Burning of the House of Lords and Commons, 16th October 1834 exhibited 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: A Disaster at Sea ?circa 1835 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: Ancient Italy – Ovid banished from Rome exhibited 1838 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: The Angel Standing in the Sun exhibited 1846 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: Undine Giving the Ring to Massaniello, Fisherman of Naples exhibited 1846 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino exhibited 1839 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: The Parting of Hero and Leander exhibited 1837 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway exhibited 1844 by Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851

: The Oxford Centre for Missions Studies

: Approaching St. Hugh’s

: China Centre Building – an attractive mix of Asian and English architecture.

: St. Hugh’s Arms

: Woodstock

: Green moss

: A street in Jericho

: Buckingham Palace

: Green Park

: Green Park

: Canadian World War II Memorial

: Canadian War Memorial (WWII)

: Entrance to the Royal Academy of Art

: Art installation in the courtyard of the Royal Academy of Arts

: Savile Row

: Gieves and Hawkes

: Henry Poole

: Richard Anderson

: Huntsman

: Piccadilly Circus

: Piccadilly Circus

: Nelson’s Column

: Horatio Nelson

: Trafalgar Square

: National Gallery

: Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

: A gift from Virginia

: National Gallery

: George IV

: Women of WWII Memorial

: Montgomery Memorial

: WWII Memorial

: Battle of Britain Memorial

: Egyptian Obelisk

: Bomb scars from WWII

: Blackfriers Bridge

: Near London Blackfriers Bridge

: Tate Modern

: The Shard

: Millennium Bridge

: Southwark Bridge

: The Globe

: The Shard

: HMS Belfast

: Tower Bridge

: Hay’s Galleria

: The Scoop, looking south across the Thames

: Tower Bridge

: Tower Bridge

: Tower Bridge

: The Scoop

: Egg in front of The Scoop

: Haye’s Galleria

: Borough Market

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