Oxford or Cambridge

A visit to this intellectual center of the world is memorable!  Oxford and/or Cambridge have this back-in-time feel with a ridiculously huge number of historic buildings.  Aside from touring the university (which is actually a collection of rather exclusive colleges) and gaping at the architecture all around you, there are a number of free and fascinating museums.  The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is the home to Guy Fawkes' lantern (with which he almost succeeded in blowing up Parliament in 1603)!  Harry Potter's Great Hall was filmed in Oxford -- take the tour if you like.

Here's a random sampling of some of Oxford's alumni, whose footsteps you can walk in:

John Locke    

Percy Shelley

John Wycliffe  

Lewis Carroll  

JRR Tolkein

CS Lewis  

John Donne  

Thomas Hobbes

Hugh Grant  

Sir Walter Raleigh  

Sister Wendy Beckett

Rowan Atkinson  

Jethro Tull  

Oscar Wilde

Dr Seuss  

Stephen Hawking  

Bill Clinton

Oxford is our preferred University city. With busy bicycle traffic, an awesome botanical center, and great pubs, including the Eagle and Child, where CS Lewis, JRR Tolkein, et al. would sit around discussing their books.  Good fish and chips, too. 

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