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  • I have no time now to UTFS just a quick second to post this and then check again tomorrow morning....my girlfriend has a job interview in Oxford tomorrow and being the dutiful husband i am driving her down for it from leeds. I will have time to kill and was going to take a wander in the centre of the city and was looking for suggestions on none mono-culture related shopping/galleries/museums etc that can be visited quickly in an afternoon!
    spasiba!

  • Ask eyebrows, he went to Uni there
    I spent my youth there but hated the place...

  • On a more useful note, I used to love this place...
    http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/

  • They've just renovated the Ashmolean. I was supposed to go for some function there after the re-opening, but couldn't be bothered (wish I did), so I can't tell you whether it's any good. Got a lot of press, though.

    http://www.ashmolean.org/

  • Go to the ashmolean and the pitt rivers museum

    EDIT: To late.

  • there's more in that tiny city to do than most other places.
    take a bike, ride around, enjoy the day.. the above are excellent suggestions, for more pm me...
    Henry

  • ^ secretenger

  • had to thinkenger....

    after midnight, there's an organic kebab van, which does some of the best food in the whole of Oxford, super cheap.
    Amazing Vego burgers, and Gourmet burger Kitchen quality real beef burgers.
    Good eats during the day- Alpha bar in Covered Market.
    get yourself and your gf to G and D's for some ice cream heaven.
    Or for some of the best Japanese food in England try your luck in Edamame- opposite New College
    thats food covered.
    attractions.
    I love just wandering randomly around that city. I hated Uni there, but loved living there.
    there's alot to be discovered.
    1 rule, don't go in any college that asks you to pay.
    Advice for a special lunch.
    Go to Exeter College, with a packed takeaway type thing.
    walk through the lodge, through the quad and into the Fellow's Garden.
    Walk to the End, climb the steps and sit on the balcony over radcliffe square.
    be confident and the porters won't chase you.
    Visit the chapel afterwards- the most underrated thing in Oxford IMHO.
    Clap the Mound at New College.
    visit Cowley for a more visceral experience away from the tourists.
    head up to the Botanical Gardens and enjoy the peaceful Isis river, and amazing greenhouses.
    have a beer at the Turf Tavern after admiring the bridge of sighs, next to the Bodlean
    have a beer at the White Horse, its tiny and excellent.
    have a beer at the Three goats heads and congratulate yourself on the cheapness and deliciousness.

  • too long. didn't read.

  • This:

    Go to Exeter College, with a packed takeaway type thing.
    walk through the lodge, through the quad and into the Fellow's Garden.
    Walk to the End, climb the steps and sit on the balcony over radcliffe square.
    be confident and the porters won't chase you.

    and this:

    have a beer at the White Horse, its tiny and excellent.

    are good ideas (not to say the others are not).

  • Much appreciated all!
    Going to take my bike and see what i can see!

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