Did we really have only three days in Oxford? Not long enough!
We were lucky to show up just before the fall term (Michaelmas) began, which meant that college dorms were still available for "summer" visitors like us. Ellen booked us into a sweet little room at Keble College. This was our view in the evenings . . .
And in the morning, when we crossed the quad to eat breakfast in the glorious dining hall, it was easy to pretend, just briefly, that we belonged. A borrowed moment from lives we had lived only in books.
And speaking of books, the Bodleian Library is extraordinary, inside and out.
