Any DFW things to do on a day out in Oxford?

msmicawber

judi24 wrote:

One of the museums has got load of great anthropology stuff like shrunken heads! Can't remember which one but I'll ask my brother he live in Oxford. I agree the archiecture is great. There are all sorts of tours you can do. The tourist information place will give you ideas. They can be guided (which cost) or not (free).
I wan't to come PLEASE!!!

It's called the Pitt Rivers Museum and you get to it through the University Museum of Natural History (same architect as the Nat. History Museum in London) - both are lovely museums (as is the Ashmolean, which is closer to the Railway Station).

If the weather's nice, there's the Botanical Gardens next to Magdalen Bridge, and you can ramble through the colleges, which are lovely.

Although you don't fancy shopping, there's the covered market off the High Street, which is nice (they've got a massive Sun Fish in the fishmongers at the moment) and has a couple of nice cafes.

I only live a few miles away, but still enjoy rambling through Oxford whenever I can.

wisbech_lad

Christ Church Meadows
Fellows' Garden, Addison's Walk, Botanic Gardens (all Magdalen College)
Museums (as detailed above, all free)
Just wandering around the centre of town, the jumble of colleges means that often the little side streets are hiding something lovely
Bring a picnic, or buy fresh bread, cheese & stuff in the covered market
Bookshops that are used to people browsing & reading (Blackwell's)
If you have time Port Meadow is also a good walk, but a bit further out from the town centre.
Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral, or in any college chapel (but college chapels only have services during term time) Christ Church, Magdalen, New College all have very good choir schools, think of them as a free, short concert!

julie88_2

there is a great cheap little place called the magic cafe on madgelen rd
in east oxford used to go with dd when she was at oxford brooks uni

Baileys_Babe

Modern Art Oxford, in Pembroke Street is free.

wigginsmum

The colleges are very pretty - Okay I'm biased, but I recommend St. Edmund Hall on the High Street on Queen's Lane. Very pretty quad leading through to the churchyard and the college library called St. Peter-in-the-East.

Just stay away from Parson's Pleasure!

Chrismojam

Still had a nice couple of days away with mum....a bit exasperating (she is bi-polar - manic depressive....does not want to take meds/doesn't think she needs them....a complete ciggie addict....chain smoker (the rest of us there don't smoke).......does not want to take baths or showers - they cause her to get colds apparently...her breathing difficulties have nothing to do with chronic bronchitis and emphyseama or smoking upwards of 40 a day...try telling someone who does this and is somewhat incontenant that she needs to wash!! Oh what fun!! Still, I am proud to say that me and sis kept our cool and just got on with it) but she enjoyed herself...that's the main thing.....which considering the way my bro acted at the beginning of the week...I'm really glad that she still enjoyed it.....still...you can't choose your family can you?

Got to see her great grandson....although have to say the addiction to cigarettes did take over and she spend most of her time in the garden! Plus she got a cold and didn't want to go near the baby.......didn't stop her going out for a ciggie!!

Went to Monkey World in Dorset and over to Godshill in the Ilse of Wight.....and to a donkey sactuary and on to Ventor for tea etc....lots of travelling........knackered by the time we got home.......but nice all the same...

Friday...which was going to be my Oxford day......we were all completely knackered by then....and getting over the 4 near death/injury experiences of the day before!!:eek: Two cars driving towards us on the wrong side of the road.....one near full head on....one half head on....and the two near wipe outs by HGV's on the motorway towards Oxford...do these people not check before 'inidicating' and pulling out immediately!!!?????????:eek: :eek: :eek:

spud30

Sounds like the typical family holiday to me

You need a break now you're bank hun?

In_Search_Of_Me

families, cant live with em, cant shoot em and as for idiot drivers...

Chrismojam

spud30 wrote:

Sounds like the typical family holiday to me

You need a break now you're bank hun?

Oh how knackered was I coming back home....and OH wanted to go see Southport Air Show on the Sunday....which I have to say was good ...what we saw of it (Red Arrows...fab)....I of course had dressed in smart cash...for a pub meal later etc.....and of course we went down to the beach so he could get his photos ......which turned out pretty good considereing how windy and wet it was...(yes it had been peeing down.....sodding puddles everywhere...imagine how prissy I looked trying not to get my cords wet!!! I gave up in the end....

My bro really spoiled things...mum and me were supposed to be having a day out with him/wife/kids etc on the Tuesday....Monday (the day before he is supposed to be taking us out....he is !!!!!! as anything by 7.30pm......) ....my sis had called him to see what was happening...as he had made no contact whatsoever...and we ended up getting something like 7 or 8 vicious, verbally agressive and abusive phonecalls.......I mean raging down the phone to the extent that you cannot understand what the hell he is saying....or rather...screaming...down the phone....

Oh and now he hates me and my sis and wishes us dead and hopes we rot in hell........reall petty you can't choose your family!

Jaymz

I don't know of any free things to do in Oxford even though I live near near there! Might have to do some of these things for myself when I get bored