What we did on Tuesday

Yesterday, Tuesday (Sept 20), was a really fun day. The weather was quite warm - perhaps even made it to the lower 70s. But it was colder in the morning and I didn't believe the weather would stay nice all day, so I wore a wool sweater and brought a coat. Oh, well. You just can't dress for this country.

We started off across the river behind Wolfson and into the nature reserve that belongs to the college. It was so beautiful and rural back there, like David said in last night's post. We walked along a footpath along the river, then through the university parks, and emerged in east Oxford near lots of colleges.

The major sights we saw on this walk included St. Cross Parish Church, with a neat old graveyard, and Magdalen College. Magdalen (pronounced "maudlin" for some unknown reason) is where C.S. Lewis taught literature, and it's also a gorgeous college. The chapel, like Merton College the other day, was huge and beautiful.

We had a late lunch at David's new favorite restaurant, Bonjour Rapide (we both had the felafel baguettes this time), wandered down the Cornmarket looking at the shops, then hopped on a bus to Summertown.

Summertown is an area of north Oxford that is slightly closer to us than the city center for shopping. It's where the internet cafe is that I wrote my previous posts from. We went to Marks & Spencers and another grocery store for some basics, then caught another bus back to our place. Actually, the bus only goes to the end of our road, Linton Road, and it's a decent walk from there. It was no fun with our very heavy grocery bags, but we made it.

We had dinner at home - pasta with pesto sauce from Marks & Spencers - and then spent much of the evening trying to get David's university card (which came in my mailbox around 6-ish) to work. We had little success there, but did do some interesting exploring of the college common rooms and dining hall.

By the time the internet in our room began to work I'd gone to bed, but it sure was nice to have it when I got up this morning! And David is so glad to be able to look for jobs online here at home - he already applied for four last night!