Oxfords

 I spent my last day in UK visiting Oxford. The University of Oxford was founded in the 12th century and like Cambridge, there is central university building but 40 colleges and associated buildings, such as the Exam Schools, the world-famous Bodleian Library, and several world-class museums. 

The walking tour was led by a grad student via the Hertford Bridge, the Bodleian Library, the Sheldonian Theatre, the Christ Church (Meadows Building), and other colleges with fine examples of the collegiate Gothic architecture for which Oxford is renowned for. In particular, the All Souls college famous for its striking towers and accepting only two graduate fellows each year based upon their performance in what has been described as the 'hardest exam in the world'.

I later visited Ashmolean myseum, Britain's oldest public museum founded in 1683, with ancient art from Egypt, the Near East, Greece and Rome, a fine collection of Western art and artifacts and a sizable Eastern Art collection, the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (I like the building more than the collections), the Museum of Oxford, and they are free to enter. 

Since there is no free viewing towers in Oxford, I got up the roof terrace of a major department store to get some views.