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I actually wrote this entry three weeks ago, when we were almost home, but was distracted by domestic matters and didn't get around to posting it. However I was prevailed upon by family members, ...
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I’ve joined the Mile High Club! Now don’t get me wrong, I am behaving myself – It’s just that I’m sending this blog entry from high in the sky over Siberia, courtesy of Singapore Airl...
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Merton and Christ Church Colleges from the path where I took a walk a couple of days ago. I hope you enjoy looking at these photos I took. It was so peaceful - but very cold. So cold that after...
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My walk took me along the river at the bottom of Christ Church Meadow.
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Ducks on the river bank.
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Trees on the opposite bank of the river. I really love this one!
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You lookin' at me????
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A pretty scene...
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Christ Church Oxford, where Charles Dodgson (a member of the academic staff) and Alice Liddell (daughter of the Dean) lived. This was the location where Dodgson told and wrote his famous storie...
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Statue of Dean Liddell, father of Alice.
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The chestnut tree in the Dean's Garden (all that we, the public, are allowed to see of it) where Lewis Carroll imagined the Cheshire Cat sitting.
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Christ Church Library. From here, Lewis Carroll (aka Charles Dodgson) would have seen the Liddell girls playing in the Dean's Garden over the wall nearby.
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The Alice Shop in St Aldates. It appears in the Alice books as "The Old Sheep Shop" and it's said that in Alice's day it was owned by an old woman who spoke in a bleating voice like a sheep! Th...
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The path through Christ Church Meadow down to Folly Bridge - a path often taken by Alice and her sisters.
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Salters Boat Sheds, by Folly Bridge, where Dodgson hired a boat to row the Liddell sisters down the river. You can still hire rowing boats here.
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The meadows where Dodgson, his friend Robinson, the Liddell girls and their governess Miss Prickett, had their picnic and Dodgson first spun the tale of Alice in Wonderland.
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These brass "firedogs" in the dining hall at Christ Church have long necks - rather like the illustrations in the Alice in Wonderland books. It's thought they were models for the illustrator. ...
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The Oxford Museum of Natural History - Dodgson would have taken Alice and her sisters here often. Unfortunately the stuffed Dodo that the museum had held long after the bird's extinction was fo...
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Dinosaur skeleton inside the Museum of Natural History, a wonderful neo-Gothic Victorian building.
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This display case in the museum has examples of all the animals mentioned in the Alice books including the dodo, white rabbit, mock turtle, eaglet and walrus.
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This painting of the extinct Dodo was first hung in the Oxford Museum of Natural History in the mid 1800's and excited great interest in Oxford. Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) would have taken...
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Reconstruction of Dodo skeleton (on left) and Dodo (on right) - in Oxford Museum of Natural History.
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Cast of Dodo head in the Oxford Museum of Natural History.
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