Shirley, Gareth and I decided to do an impromptu trip up to Oxford yesterday (okay, I decided and whined until I got my way).

The architecture of the place is incredible. I took hundreds of pics and they weren't enough. It's just a shame the sunlight is so damn shy in the UK. Look at the vines growing up the side of that building-very Shakespearean, hehe.

We walked around aimlessly for a bit and then happened upon a 1000-year old church selling maps and guidebooks.

This pic and the one above are of a massively huge college called Christ Church. We thought the place reminded us of Hogwarts and Harry Potter and it turned out that this is precisely where some scenes from the HP movies were shot.

This dining hall should look familiar to the Harry Potter fans.

Although it is a LOT smaller in real life, it's no less stunning. There are the original paintings up of Queen Elizabeth I and Henry VIII

We climbed another tower in St. Mary's church to see the rest of Oxford from above.