Lunch at the Lamb and Child, this is beef and onion pie
The Pitt Rivers Museum
This boy is fearless of the T. Rex
The University Museum
The Oxford Dodo at the University Museum
Here is Alice or is this three Alices?
Greetings,
Today was the last day of the conference. We attended sessions this morning and then headed over to the Ashmolean museum again for about an hour or so. I started at the top and worked my way down. It is a fine museum and it is the oldest public museum in England.
Then we walked over to the University Museum and the attached Pitts River Museum. These are Natural history museums. We ate lunch at the Lamb and Flag pub. It is managed by St Johns's College and is a place where the Inklings (including C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien) would often meet. It has been a food and drink establishment since 1695.
After lunch we visited St. Mary's Cathedral and then Blackwells one of the largest and oldest bookstores in Oxford.
Today was Alice Day in Oxford. This is an annual event which celebrates the writings of Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) a mathematics professor at Oxford who wrote Alice in Wonderland. Alice as the daughter of the Dean of Christ College.
Tomorrow we are heading on an excursion to Stonehenge, Avebury, and Salisbury.
John Wineland
Oxford University
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