02-07-2003 00:23									#1
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I arrived last Sunday and I'm staying at Oriel College as part of a Study Abroad deal. We (about 40 students) have classes until 4:30 and after that we're free to do whatever. Any suggestions for Oxford, London, or Edinburgh?

I don't understand why everything closes at five...

	02-07-2003 00:24									#2
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Get the train to the nearest place where anything interesting is happening.

	02-07-2003 00:28									#3
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Flee! Quickly! Before the legions of Pimms&Lemonade drinking blazer wearers get you!

	02-07-2003 00:28									#4
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Oxford in summer? I hope you weren't hoping to meet students because they are all at home...you're just surrounded by boredom, old buildings and hordes of tourists...I don't envy you

	02-07-2003 00:36									#5
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You must not have got the part where I said I'm studying here...
Purdue offers a program where we go over here, live in the dorms and take two classes. I'm taking a Middle Earth class and a Business Writing one.

We had a Pimms reception just last night... very interesting drink.

Instead of telling me what a mistake this is, tell me where to go and what to do. Well, that's just a suggestion...

	02-07-2003 00:53									#6
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Get the train to London, get pissed, and get the last train back at 00:20.

	02-07-2003 01:19									#7
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Do not diss the mighty Pimms and Lemonade

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quote: Originally posted by *End Is Forever* Get the train to London, get pissed, and get the last train back at 00:20.

Get pissed in London?!

	02-07-2003 01:23									#9
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meet up with Prov and me!

	02-07-2003 01:25									#10
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Now Andy is right, we shall both be there next month on the 'Provost and Andy Grand Tour of England'

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looking forward to it

and now you consider it's all ebcause Azazel is there... what a larf!

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When I was there we went clubbing. The clubs were good but you have to dress up much more then in the US and the drinks cost an arm and a leg. We ended up meeting a 60 year old parting guy named Nigel who was kind enough to show us around and took us to all of the cool clubs.

The people were really friendly but the girls seemed much more difficult to approach and people dance rather bazaarly. I mean they didn't dance together instead they all stood facing the DJ and did there own little trance dance which consisted of holding there arms close to their bodies and swaying back and forth on each foot. Rather strange really...

	02-07-2003 01:38									#13
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As EiF says, but get the bus (Xsomething) as it is there all night, and its quick and easy.

If you want to go out, try walking up Walton Street (I think, the one parallel to the Woodstock Road, go west from the west end of Broad Street). Tried that when I was there for a few days and found most of the pubs and (the very few) clubs were there.

The point Provost was trying to make is that term tiem has ended for Oxford. All the Oxford stidents went home a couple of weeks ago. Much of the entertainment in Oxford is provided by the colleges in term time, and so it is pretty dead out of term time.

Try looking at http://www.itchyoxford.co.uk/ or http://www.knowhere.co.uk/578_goingout.html for ideas. Something like The perfect weekend in Oxford might be useful.

	02-07-2003 01:40									#14
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quote: Originally posted by Oerdin took us to all of the cool clubs.

Which ones? I haven't been up there that much, and some inside info would be nice

	02-07-2003 04:19									#15
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There are cool clubs in London?

	02-07-2003 04:23									#16
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Do a Masters degree in Media Studies. With any luck you'll still have a week or so left to take in the sights.

	02-07-2003 04:27									#18
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quote: Originally posted by Drogue Which ones? I haven't been up there that much, and some inside info would be nice

I'm trying to remember but it was 3 years ago and I was on my way back from Kosovo (were were going through RAF Mildenhall) so as soon as we made it back to civilization my friends and I proceeded to get totally blitzed.

I can remember one of my friends not being allowed into one of the clubs because he was wearing jeans which rarely happens in the US (but is becoming more common). I can getting a taxi and having him drop us off on the main drag and then stopping at a couple of pubs from some food & drinks (Samuel Smith's is ) and then we ended up in a really big two story club where you had to go in through the back door and everyone was dancing to trace music. I was drinking Scotch on the rocks so I don't remember to much more.

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The Chandos! Rawk!

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quote: Originally posted by MacTBone I'm taking a Middle Earth class

A Tolkien class?

Or did you mean Middle English?

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"Class there will be a test on monday about the geneology of Frodo and the entire Baggins clan."

	02-07-2003 04:47									#23
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"Sorry I'm late, I overslept".

"Ah ah ah, in Elvish".

	02-07-2003 04:52									#24
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quote: Originally posted by Starchild Flee! Quickly! Before the legions of Pimms&Lemonade drinking blazer wearers get you!

Oy!! I resent that...

I think I look rather fetching in my white blazer with black/gold/cambridge blue trim, and the club insignia on my pocket. And luckily for me, so do the girls... Boatie cocktail parties kick arse

As for Oxford, depending on your usual interests and what college you're at, you might want to try your hand at rowing. I am coaching a bunch of US summer students for a couple of weeks in a weeks time in Cambridge (not sure where they're from yet), seems like that happens every year.

	02-07-2003 21:39									#25
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quote: Originally posted by lightblue Oy!! I resent that... I think I look rather fetching in my white blazer with black/gold/cambridge blue trim, and the club insignia on my pocket. And luckily for me, so do the girls... Boatie cocktail parties kick arse As for Oxford, depending on your usual interests and what college you're at, you might want to try your hand at rowing. I am coaching a bunch of US summer students for a couple of weeks in a weeks time in Cambridge (not sure where they're from yet), seems like that happens every year.

Well Oxford's clubs are sh*t...the only one perhaps worthy of consideration is The Zodiac on Cowley Road.

That blazer thing...ewwww...do you wear rugby tops and college trackie bottoms as well?

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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison That blazer thing...ewwww...do you wear rugby tops and college trackie bottoms as well?

Nope Longsleeved T shirts though... And got the cufflinks, bowtie and tie in team colors. Yeah I know...

It is all part of the boatie culture though, just look at the Stewards Enclosure at Henley this weekend.

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quote: Originally posted by lightblue Nope Longsleeved T shirts though... And got the cufflinks, bowtie and tie in team colors. Yeah I know... It is all part of the boatie culture though, just look at the Stewards Enclosure at Henley this weekend.

I had noticed the 'boatie culture' and the rugby one...quite repulsive really

	02-07-2003 23:09									#29
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As well as what Drogue said, check out:

http://www.thezodiac.co.uk/

http://www.dailyinfo.co.uk/


There's a pub in Walton St called 'The Jericho'. You need student ID to buy one of their 'Yellow Cards' (cost 1 pound). Every Thursday night they have "Pound a Pint" night and the yellow card lets you buy pints for a pound (there may be other special offers too). It can be pretty crowded.

	02-07-2003 23:18									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Provost Harrison I had noticed the 'boatie culture' and the rugby one...quite repulsive really

Once again, I resent that!! Boaties != ruggerbuggers. For a start female rowers >>> female rugby players, which in turn makes the socials a lot more fun

I admit a lot of boaties adhere to a certain stereotype (tall, athletic, upper middle class, loud, hard drinking). We play hard and we party hard. It takes a certain kind of person to get up at 5.30am 5 times a week to train before breakfast, and the shared pain forms quite tightknit groups across colleges and clubs. This also means it is fairly hard for "outsiders" to get in if they haven't rowed much.

In a way I suppose the boatie/rugby/hockey/cricket culture in Oxbridge is similar to certain fraternities at US colleges.

Anyway, rowing and boatiehood has made an enormous positive change in my life over the last year in terms of both physical fitness (2" off my waist, down to 9% body fat whilst only losing about 2kgs), my self confidence and in the acquisition of a number of people i can see being friends for life. I'd recommend it to anyone who asks me my opinion of it (although to get above a certain level a certain physical build is required).