Sat 14 March 2009: Honeymoon Day 8

I've been told that today we'll be doing a lot of walking in town as much of the town centre is gazetted as pedestrian area. No problem.

Our first stop of the day was one of the more popular colleges of the University of Oxford: Christ Church College. It is here that the writer of Alice in Wonderland served as a professor, got his inspiration for the story and wrote this fairy tale. It is also here at this college that the scene for Harry Potter's movie was set (in the Great Hall).

Unfortunately we were not able to enter the great hall today as it was being used for Parents' Luncheon by the university.

Nonetheless, we did manage to visit the other parts:

I used the timer function to take our picture in the university grounds and this spooky image was taken.

There's a great lawn area in the middle of the college.

Mother and Child statue inside the church.

Our tour of Christ Church college ended and we continued our walk to the town centre for some shopping. I didn't buy much except for a couple of souvenir t-shirts.

There was also a French Market in town so we had a look around.

By now I was craving for a hot dog. The only place we did find selling them were at this little cafe inside the covered market.

Lunch was so light, we had to have something else to eat. Fred queued up at Ben's Cookies. Must be good as there was quite a queue.

Yes, the cookie was great!

Having had our cookie, we head back to our hotel on foot, had a bit of rest and it was time to go out for dinner at a popular Inn: The Trout on Tadpole Bridge. It's about half an hours drive from Oxford and the almost all the tables were booked. We were so lucky to get 1 table.

Internet picture of the Trout on Tadpole Bridge. It was dark when we arrived there so we couldn't get a nice picture ourselves of its beautiful exteriors.

Trio of sausages for me

A juicy platter of halibut and seafood for Fred

Apple crumble and blackberry pudding with cream for dessert.

YUMMY!