Bank Holiday Weekend - Oxford

Last weekend we ticked Oxford off the bucket list, making use of the long bank holiday weekend. The prestigious University town turned it on with hot sun most of the weekend getting up to 22 degrees! The photos below are a pretty good roundup of the amazing buildings mostly owned by the Oxford University colleges.

Main Street

 Cornmarket Street

Local retailers

 Small grotesques on the window edge

Corpus Christi College Courtyard

Merton College buildings above

Spring Blossoms

 Church of St Mary the Virgin

Radcliffe Camera

 Kat with the bridge of Sighs in the background

The bridge of Sighs

Old round padlock

Concrete bust

Oxford cobbled Streets

Rounded Cobble Street

Christ Church College dining hall - inspired the Hogwarts dining hall in the Harry Potter Movies

Christ Church College grounds

Ghosts...

More Ghosts...

 Sweetchilli sauce

Bill Spectre ghost tour

 That time Bill attacked Liz...

Ghost tour

Sunsetting in Oxford

Kat with the doorway that gave C.S Lewis the inspiration to write the Narnia books

Intricately carved Mr Tumnus doorway and the lampost, Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe - Radcliffe Camera in background

Aslan inspiration on the door

St Patricks Day - Ireland

Some pics from our recent trip to Ireland for St Pats Day.  Our travels started in Dublin, where we met up with 20 odd kiwi mates for a reasonably large evening on the guiness and catch ups at the Long Hall and Roady Bowlands pub.  The following day we all jumped on the lunch time train with a few cans to Galway, where we would celebrate St Pats day.  We travelled out to Kinvara a small rural settlement on the coast (40 minutes out of Galway) for St Pats morning.  They put on an amazing St Pats community parade mainly consisting of farming machinery, animals and school children with hurling sticks, classic.  Then spent St Pats evening back in Galway with our Kiwi/Aussie/American flash mob. A hell of a weekend.

The River Liffey, Dublin

Central Dublin

St Pats morning Galway

Kinvara

Mitch, Hudge & Tom

Castle outside Kinvara

Kinvara St Pats Parade

Kinvara coastline

  

A pint of the black stuff

Beers and some Hurling on telly with the locals at Sextons Pub

More Guiness

Tinkers

Parade Float

Spot the pint of Guiness..

A wood burner float

Local children with Hurls

Float ?

Waiting for the beginning of parade

Father Ted and Father Jack

Classic old Guiness adverts in the brewery

Molly Malones Statue Dublin

Jeremy, Kat, Katie, Brian, Pearce

Kat and Barrels in Guiness Storeroom