Europe

  • 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 1

    We visited Windsor Castle. I took tons of photos and decided to split them in two posts to not overload. The Queen was home (you can see the royal standard), and photos are also not allowed in the castle. Here’s the first batch.

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  • St. Paul’s Cathedral

    St. Paul’s was the first stop in our long day of London sightseeing. I originally planned to attend services here as this was a Sunday morning, but this was the only time on the trip I managed to get more than 6 hours of sleep. #whoops. Photos aren’t allowed in the cathedral itself, but you…

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