Our first night in Paris, our tour guide dropped the ball big time and didn’t make our group of 40 dinner plans. We wound up at a pizzeria right behind our hotel. The food was surprisingly good and soothed our hanger. From there, a group of us headed back into Paris to visit the Arc…
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The golden hour at Westminster
After our day in Oxford, we arrived back in London at dinner time. I mentioned before that we wanted to make the most of our time, so we headed back out. My sorority grand-little lives in London, and I made plans to meet her for drinks after she finished work. We had a bit of time…
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Oxford, England
See photos from our time at the University of Oxford here. The town of Oxford and the university are entwined. You can walk back and forth from town to campus without really realizing it. I loved seeing the awkwardly placed lamppost, faun-shaped doorframe, and lion door that are said to have inspired C.S. Lewis and…
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The University of Oxford
The whole point of our trip was to learn more about European higher education in order to compare and contrast it with our American options. Our English institution was the University of Oxford, the oldest English university. I was extremely excited to visit this campus and honestly could have spent our whole trip there. We…
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Big Ben at night
Because you only get so much free time when you go on a coordinated trip like ours, you wind up making every little bit count. This includes late night forays to explore and photograph the sites. We popped on the tube after a dinner with some students at King’s College for our program and headed over…
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Windsor Castle, part 2
Part 1 here! These are the remaining photos from our trip to Windsor Castle.