The Five to Nine Traveller

Spring is upon us so I best tell you all about Oxford, a beautiful UK city that is splendid, especially in the Spring and Summer months.  (Sorry for my hiatus I had an impending all consuming exam to sit)

I moved to Oxford in the summer of 2010 with no family, no friends, no significant other, no nothing….if you think solo travel is scary try solo relocation! (Sidenote: I have yet to properly solo travel only solo day trips still playing chicken weird huh?)

I hit Oxford and woah my life slowed down, I mean screechingly train tracks so!  There were no dinners, outings and dance nights to rush off to anymore.  And in that void I spent the first couple of weeks either:

a) rushing back to London at the weekends

b) talking on the phone to friends and

c) watching a whole load of Family Guy late into the night.

This obviously couldn’t continue for a long time so soon I did less of those activities and decided to enjoy the beauty of Oxford.

I ditched buses because they were not a patch on TFL and took to walking everywhere and boy I saw Oxford’s beauty (and maintained my weight rather than gain lol).  I noticed the regal architecture and nature that little bit more and marvelled at it!

University Church of St Mary the Virgin in Springtime

I took up the Argentine tango and Spanish classes both spurring me on to add Argentina on my wanderlist.  I attended a lot of cultural events on my own…including the Annual Argentine Tango festival held every year and some music gigs at the Bullingdon on Cowley Road.

Watch Yanina Quinones & Neri Piliu dancing beautifully below….

I found my long lost cousin blogger Adoredee  who took me to a Rubix cube party at St Catherine’s college (my only regret is that I didn’t have you sooner in my life from childhood) and met some amazing new people in my life through housemates and church.

I also paid a visit to a few colleges when friends and family came a-visiting.

In the ground of Magdalen College

In Christ Church – all about the angles

Lincoln College

In the chapel of Magdalen College

Oh and sunsets I mean did I mention the sunsets…my phone became full of them!! It became my favourite part of the day.  I could actually dedicate an entire post to them (I won’t, don’t worry).

Thank you Oxford for slowing life down so I could actually focus and take it ALL in.