Been off on my travels again, this time up to Oxford to attend an open gaudy (reunion) at Hertford College, my first trip back in… *cough*… a number of years. Had a great time – lovely food, plenty of wine, and a chance to catch up with some old friends.
I am actually in this pic, just the back of my head, to the left of the man in specs pouring the wine.
A picture of the old quad with no one in it.
The staircase leading up to the dining hall.
Hertford College with its Bridge of Sighs. Whenever anyone says they’ve never heard of the college I mention the bridge – Morse was always driving under it in the TV series.
The Hertford College crest, as seen on the graduate centre on the Abingdon Road.
Magpie Lane, leading from the High Street to Merton Field and the spookily named Dead Man’s Walk.
Geese on the walk round Christ Church Meadow.
Sometimes I could do with one of these to rest my own weary limbs.
Looking back across Christchurch meadow.
Ducks taking a nap by the Cherwell.
Looking back from Head of the River.
Catte Street looking towards Radcliffe Camera – once my local stomping ground.
Radcliffe Camera, part of the Bodleian library. When I wasn’t writing essays in my room, I was buried in books in there.
Just across the road from Hertford was Blackwell, my nearest bookshop. So one of the highlights of this trip was to go in and find a couple of my books on the top shelf. Something I could never ever have imagined back when I was a student!