Radcliffe Camera in Oxford, May 2002. Though the winters are dismal in England, the spring is absolutely spectacular, as seen in this shot. Overall, I wasn't impressed as much with Oxford as I was with Cambridge (though I had been to Oxford almost 20 years before). Then again, having an excellent guide like Jack Beckman to take me through Cambridge made a significant difference. This particular trip was also soured by BritRail, which closed the Oxford station unannounced, which required us to get off several stops before, queue up for an hour, then catch a bus to the Oxford train station, in order to get to the hollowed halls traversed by the dons. The other great part about this day trip was finding a short bio of Kuyper that I had never seen in the US in a bookstore for half off - 2 pounds. What a deal! 
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