Oxford, the Dorset Heath and Swanage Cliffs

outside of Keble Chapel

Oxford bus outside some fancy-pants college

Dorset Heath!

Dorset Heath- dying invasive bracken in front, heather in back

Corfe Castle

the cliffs at Swanage

I’m not sure if people are still going to check up on this site, but I figured I might as well post some photos from Oxford, as well as my most recent trip to the south of England for my course orientation. We visited the Dorset Heath as well as the cliffs at Swanage, although we spent a disappointing amount of time actually walking through the nature reserves (I can’t bring myself to call what we did hiking).  But they did feed us an awful lot.  This week is ‘Fresher’s Week’ for me, which is seems to just be an extended orientation program with a few too many organized social events, but it has been good fun so far.  Last night I finally went inside Keble College, and had dinner in the massive hall. Apparently, it was built to be one brick longer than the hall at Christ Church (competitive much??), which many people might recognize from the Harry Potter movies. As it turns out, Keble originally was supposed to be where they filmed the movies, but Keble turned them down because it would be too time intensive. Either way, its a really beautiful place.

Noami is off farming near Cirencester now, about 50 miles away, and I am hoping to visit next week.  If she had internet access, I suspect she would say hello to everyone.

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