Sport at Oxford Remarkably, despite a full-time focus on study, Oxford students still find lots of time to play. Pick any early morning (in normal times) and you will find them rowing down the river, jogging along the towpath, speeding round the Iffley Road track, scaling the climbing wall or ploughing up and down the fantastic Rosenblatt Swimming Pool. In [...]
This week we are turning our attention once again to what you might like to do after your Walking Tours of Oxford tour. After your tour, your head will be full of fascinating information. You may fancy a rest from walking so that you can mull over what you have so recently found out. Then again, you may just want [...]
At Walking Tours of Oxford…. We have missed you! So now for … a BUBBLE TOUR! Possibly followed or preceded by…. A Bespoke Picnic! Welcome back and let us organise a really special day for you! With immediate effect, we are able to offer you our unique BUBBLE TOURS for a maximum of 5 people (plus guide to equal 6) [...]
Alice Day in Oxford 4th July may be Independence Day in the US, but here in Oxford we celebrate Alice Day. This year it was a bit ‘virtual’ but usually you can bump into several ‘Alices’ wearing little blue dresses and ‘Alice’ bands and take guided ‘Alice walks’ around the city. At Walking Tours of Oxford we would be delighted [...]
The Perfect Oxford Visit ‘I want to see Oxford University…. and I only have one day in my schedule. What should I do?’ At Walking Tours of Oxford, we are used to answering this question. We have lots of ideas, but one of our favourites is to combine our own ‘Simply Oxford Tour’ with a visit to Oxford’s most magnificent [...]
Oxford’s Libraries – The Bodleian Home to more than 100 libraries, Oxford is one of the most bookish cities in the world. Each of its 38 colleges has at least one library, some have two or three and Magdalen college has five! Every faculty has a specialised subject library and the mother of them all is the great Bodleian library. [...]
Ashmolean Musuem Had a certain widow not been found tragically (and some thought suspiciously) drowned in her garden pond, then Oxford’s oldest and largest museum might never have come to be. The unfortunate victim was the former wife of John Tradescant the Younger. Her recently deceased husband had left his collection of ‘rareities’ to his friend Elias Ashmole, who had [...]
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