Oxford Puttering

It's a big college town, since much of the town (I mean City) is made up of the 20 something individual colleges that Oxford University is.

The best way to look at it is the University sets certain guidelines and protocols and the colleges execute them in the best way they see fit. They all have their own admissions policies and are in essence, 20 something independent schools. Kinda like the Federalist system of government that we have in the States.

Oxford is what college towns such as Davis or Cambridge (MA) or even Berkeley want to be compared to.

Davis doesn't count because it's not walkable. If it was, what's the point of bringing your tricked out Honduh Accord or Toyota Camry (TRD special type) to school if you don't need to drive it? I'd guess that they'd lose a lot of their student body if that were the case.

Berkeley and Cambridge (MA), they're too crowded, the neighborhood isn't consistent with the sprawl of university facilities and Oxford is way too clean and not too crowded. I didn't see one bum, the walls were free of grafitti, I didn't smell any pot or have to walk around anything or anyone.

What I did see were some very nice girls (younger) and some really old old old old old (way older) buildings.

The canal is pretty neat too. They landscaped part of it to look like a riverbank and there's some history about it. Seems that the canal was dug back in the 1800s to help move coal down to London. When the railways made it here, the canal was redundant but they kept it for recreation.

Green water.

Did I mention that I think we passed a big Nuclear Power Plant on the way here? I'm researching...