Oxford is a pretty town to walk in. The River Thames is a manageable size and provides some respite from the more frenetic University area.
My first experience with squid crisps. I’m not sure how they straighten them.
This is the Bodleian Library and one of the very few pictures I took on my two hour walking tour of Oxford. I was the only person signed up for the tour and the guide required my full attention. It was a great tour and very informative, but I didn’t have much time to think about pictures.
But I did learn about the St. Scholastica Day Riots of February 1355. Apparently two privileged students were unhappy with the service at the Swindlestock Tavern and assaulted the owner. That devolved into three days of riots, drawing in outlying farmers to support the citizenry. In the end, about twenty townspeople and sixty university students were killed. These riots were actually the culmination of over a century of university related violence in Oxford. An earlier instance, in 1209, led to much of the faculty judging Oxford unsafe, packing up, and starting a new university at a place called Cambridge.
I did see that Oxford University is following the disturbing global pattern of squelching student protests. There are newly re-turfed areas from which protestors of the treatment of Gaza had recently been evicted.
The Journey 