Oxford: City of Dreaming Spires, Milkshakes and Professors

You know a place is mellow when they're playing Bob Marley. In the main street of Oxford, it was all sunshine, African drummers and a band playing an amazing version of 'No Woman No Cry' - I think it was the U2-style guitar that made it work.




Oxford was a sea of chilled out tourists, students and beautiful old buildings. We went to Christ Church College (pictured above with the perfect green grass) where Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll, worked as a maths professor and wrote the Alice books. Walking around Oxford I could completely see where Carroll got ideas about all the doorways in his stories. It's all arched doors, tiny doorways in walls and keyholes to peek through.

We found this milkshake shop that sells a few hundred different flavours of milkshakes. Flavours like turkish delight, crunchy nut cornflake, weetabix, tic tac... anything you could ever imagine. L and I shared a strawberry trifle milkshake with marshmallows on top. Tasted exactly the same as the name.



When I was off taking a photo, this pretty blonde girl came up to Lauch.
"Excuse me," she said, "Don't I know you from somewhere? You look like a professor I had in Canada." Lauch corrected her and she disappeared off down a rabbit hole. He had by this time blushed bright red.

Professor Lauch. Remembered by pretty blonde girls the world over.

We must never let him live this down.