Oaxfudd

Here is where I shall live.  Staying in a wonderful place, The Old Bank Hotel, with a shower AND a tub, both man-sized and with plenty water pressure.  What luxury!  Still propping windows open and walking well behind the others, but only another day of the antibiotics, so we may be able to have open flames about us again.  Climbed a church tower built in 1290.  Had lunch in the White Horse pub from 1530, supposedly Bill Clinton's favorite hangout when he was here.  Walked through Christ Church, and the great hall where Harry Potter and his lot dined.  The Christ Church enormous bell, Old Tom, tolls 101 times every night at 9:05, as when it was first rung, there were 101 students in the college.  Oxford is 5 minutes (longitudinally speaking) west of Greenwich (London) and so all time there is kept five minutes later than the rest of the town.  Class start times, curfews, etc.  Pretty cool for an anachronism.  In the History of Science Museum is the blackboard preserved from Einstein's seminal lecture of 1931 on which he wrote in seven succinct lines a description of how to determine how old the universe is, and at what rate it is expanding.  Right there on the wall.  His writing.  At Christ Church is a structure called The New Building.  It's only 900 years old.  I'm in heaven.