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Oxford, The Isis & Iffley
Now available with a midday start time.
This new trip, introduced in the May issue of
The
Kettle
combines a carefully crafted tour of the City of
Dreaming Spires designed to show you a lot without
walking as far as an Oxford visit can demand with a
visit to the mediaeval village of Iffley to see the
absolute gem of a Norman church with its John Piper
stained glass window. You just can’t get a coach to
Iffley Church so we travel by river, there and back,
two little cruises along the Isis as the Thames is
known in Oxford past Christ Church Meadows and
the University boat houses. The trip is available
March to the end of October and if you’d like to see
one of the best shows of Snakes Head Fritillaries in
the country (see page 29) come in the last two weeks
of April.
The day includes a short walk in the heart of the
University City with a visit to an Oxford College and
in order to do that the day needs to start either at
10.00am or if you just can’t make it to Oxford that
early come instead for an early lunch at midday. You
can also opt to do your own thing for lunch or include
morning coffee with biscuits and a fish & chip lunch
or fish & chips with a coffee if you are coming to
start with an early lunch. This trip is available daily
until the end of October 2013 and then again from
1 March 2014 through to the end of October 2014.
Arriving For An Early Lunch at Noon
You’ll pick up our expert Blue Badge Guide on your
way into Oxford where we aim to arrive at noon for
a fish & chip lunch with coffee, in the oldest pub in
Oxford. From the pub windows you can see Sir
Christopher Wren’s round Sheldonian Theatre and
just a few steps takes us into the beautiful and ancient
courtyard of the Bodleian Library where our
explorations begin. Our guide is going to take you
into Brasenose College where both Tony Blair and
David Cameron studied. The college was founded in
1509 taking it’s name from the
brazen nose
which
today takes pride of place above the High Table in the
Hall where the students and Dons still dine every day.
We’ll pop into the University Church which has only
just reopened after a massive two year programme of
restoration – and it’s looking rather splendid for it.
We emerge onto the High and make our way via a
slip of Christ Church Meadow to Folly Bridge where
we board a boat for a 25 minute cruise along a
tranquil stretch of river to Iffley Lock past the
university boat houses. and Christ Church Meadows.
Iffley Lock and the village are incredibly pretty. You
just can’t get a coach here. Sitting atop gentle Rose
Hill is surely one of the most beautiful churches in
England. It’s certainly one of our finest examples of
Romanesque or Norman architecture and one that,
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