Back to Oxford

After our camping trip in Wales, we headed back to England to Bert and Adreann's house. Our last full day in England we decided to go back to Oxford for a little more Harry Potter magic and Alice in Wonderland, and there's no better place for that than Christchurch college. This time we actually went inside, yay!

The grand staircase from HP

 The Great Hall from HP.

 This particular stained glass window has Alice Liddell in it (top left window).

 Back down the stairs.

 The cloister, near the cathedral.

 Inside the cathedral. This stained glass window is of the prophet Jonah watching the city of Ninevah.

 This stained glass window has Alice's sister, Edith, in the middle (she died when she was 22 I think).

 This looks like the podium that Dumbledore spoke from in the great hall...but it's not...but maybe it inspired it ;)

 This plaque is in memorial to Henry Liddell (Alice's father) who was a dean of Christchurch, and is buried in this cathedral.

This is the Liddell coat of arms on this gate. The only reason we found this was because we asked a worker in the cathedral about the Liddells, and he showed us the plaque, the stained glass window, and then he pulled out a book from the front desk that had additional information, and in the book it talked about this gate, so we went and found it in the cloister. Very cool!

 More of Christchurch.

Oxford is such a great town to visit. Great history. Great souvenirs ;)

And then our last trip came to an end, and we had to come back home and deal with the reality of moving again :(

And so it goes.