UK trips #5- Oxford

On Saturday, a couple of my friends and I visited Oxford for the day and luckily it wasn't raining, so we had the opportunity to spend our time walking around the town and admiring the absolutely stunning architecture. We didn't go inside any of the buildings or colleges because we are poor uni students, but we really appreciated the outside. Two of us are Australian, so we got excited over every single landmark and took an excessive amount of photos, just wanting to capture the magical beauty of Oxford (no wonder a lot of Harry Potter was filmed there). Also, being a massive Lewis Carroll fan, it was especially exciting to be there.

The confit duck with roasted sweet potato

The money we saved from entering buildings, we spent on food. We found an old traditional English pub for lunch, where we had confit duck, which was delicious and a real treat, because duck isn't a common thing to eat. Inside the pub, there was wooden floors and a Christmas tree- that's another great thing about going to different places in the UK at this time of year, is the Christmas decorations that light up the streets and fill the shop windows. It makes everything seem so festive and you don't mind the fact that it gets dark by 4pm in the afternoon.

We also walked and saw the German Christmas stalls along one of the main streets, which looked really nice and smelt so good with the sausages cooking, roasted chestnuts and mulled wine and cider filling the air. We didn't get anything from there, but we went to another old fashioned pub and had scones with jam and cream and hot chocolate for afternoon tea, which was a really nice way to warm up after all of the walking we did.

Oxford is such a beautiful place, that it's so hard to decide which photo to use for this post, so after a lot of debating and consideration, I have decided to show this one: