...happened this weekend! Unfortunately I wasn't able to see a lot of it, because I went to London at midday Saturday, didn't get back until the wee hours, and today I was stuck inside writing an essay. However, Friday night I went out with my friend June and got to see the lights and such.
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| The light-up toys that are inevitably on sale at these things. I used to live in Canterbury which had a lot of these events and I loved these things! |
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| The moon behind the Sheldonian. :) |
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| A view up Broad Street. |
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| Outside the Oxford Museum of Science. |
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| The Cornmarket - now the Christmas lights have gone up! |
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| The lantern and the moon. I tried so many times to take this photo! |
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In the Weston Library an "Impromptu Orchestra", which to my understanding means people turn up with their instruments and play, was performing Handel's Messiah.
Unfortunately it was a slightly avant-garde performance and an incredibly annoying woman made an old vinyl recording of the piece cut in and out of the actual music (it wasn't even in time! It was the kind of thing you do when you're a child and making music cut out was really clever) so in the end we left. We went to the Castle Quarter where there was supposed to be a performance involving light-up umbrellas, but we missed it. :(
Got a couple of photos with the lights, though.
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| June. |
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| And me! |
Oxford gets into the Christmas mood early because we have "Oxmas" on the 25th of November, which is the only reason I don't mind Christmas stuff happening before December. It's slightly ridiculous, but it gets me in the mood for Christmas so when I go home I'm really enthusiastic and all my family and friends are still in the "ugh, Christmas comes too early" stage.
Beautiful photos, travel really is a wondrous thing. You're very lucky!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I actually live just down the road from where I took most of these photos, as a student I'm lucky enough to live right in central Oxford (as a non-student there's no way I could afford it...)
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