Aside from having to be ready by 8am (yes, 8 IN THE MORNING ON A SATURDAY), and the weather being bone chillingly cold, I enjoyed the outside tour and the city that is part of the area.
We learned about some of the history of the buildings, the school, and who went there. The graduation ceremony is conducted entirely in Latin. There was a grassy area with a tree which was the inspiration for Alice in Wonderland. Bill Clinton, as well as numerous Prime Ministers, have attended the school.
We had to end the tour a tad bit early because the cold was too much. But, we did get to see the Great Hall, which was the inspiration for the dining hall in the Harry Potter movies. It was much smaller than expected, and the more I stood in there, the more I realized that in its basic form, it was just a cafeteria! A nice one, but a cafeteria nonetheless.
There was a market that few of us walked around in. I got a "hot" milkshake at an ice cream shop called Shakespeare's, and it turned out to be just a regular, cold milkshake.
-B
The grassy part that inspired Alice in Wonderland
The Great Hall, aka a cafeteria
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