Lovely English garden on ther Merton grounds opposite the fields where Justine saw her first cricket game. The air smelled sweet and heady with flowers and pollen.
This is one is for the parents: that's my childhood friend Nathan Rose and I on the Merton grounds. 
This is the Merton Common Room for Graduates (Gryffindor?) It was really cool and probably from the seventeenth century.
This is the Radcliffe Camera - part of the library. It has a beautiful reading room where we sat yesterday. It was the focus point of the filming, also. It was a really fun night - though we were chased out unexpectedly along with everyone else before the filming, we were able to sneak around in corners to see the camera move down it's ramp, a fire truck wetting the cobblestones, and a bunch of extras (guards in blue uniforms) moving around and talking to us (just a bit). No Nicole or Daniel, but it was a fun night. This guy named Sam sat with us - he was British-American and applying for Oxford this fall. At the beginning he was nonchalant, but after a while he was excitedly trying to find us the best viewpoint. We made friends with people around us and got to be a part of the general hype - seeing all the lights turn on and hearing walkie talkies blare instructions. 
In Oxford this week Sunday, Monday and Tuesday they were shooting a movie in Radcliffe Square in the city centre - The Golden Compass. Starring Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig and so everyone's star antennae were out. It's a book assigned for our fantasy class so we've been watching as the lights have come out and the cranes and the barriers and the people with walkie talkies. It's right around the Bodleian library, which is where we often are. Last night in fact, two friends and I went to the Square to wait to see if we could watch the filming and catch a glimpse of Nicole. 
Some of that rolling English countryside - well, in this picture it's flat...
Big Ben and Parliament.
Below: Westminster Abbey in the (rare) sunlight.
1 comment:
Some of your pictures are absolutely gorgeous. I do hope you're both having a lovely time, and I'm looking forward to having you back; I miss you a lot more when you're in England than in Aurora. Kristin and I are getting really excited about Harry Potter, we'll have to all three of us have a discussion night about everything. And maybe see the movie again. :)
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