Easter, part 1: Oxford

Good Friday, 8 o'clock in the morning - can you imagine Olga and me cycling through the city centre to the police station? Was quite funny...! :) We had been to a pub the evening before and were rather tired (although it had not been that late actually - the weird venezuelan guy had not turned up, after sending us textmessages not to forget him blablabla... so Olga and I just enjoyed some time chatting...).
The coach ride to Oxford took a good two hours which we spent mostly with listening to music and reading girly magazines... ;) We had some rain while on the road but by the time we reached Oxford it was back to the normal british cloudy but dry weather. Our "tour guide" had given us a little map of Oxford with some of the best sights to see, so we knew about what to do in the only 3 hours we had to explore the city. First thing was the Christ Church College, one of the three most famous colleges which is where they shot some of the scenes for the Harry Potter movies. to be honest, I was quite disappointed... I mean, first thing we saw was the board with the entrance fees - 2.50£ wasn't as bad as in other places but still - and then, everything was closed! We wanted to take a look at the chapel but it was closed because of an Easter service, the library was closed because it was Easter, most of the parts where the students live are not accessible for tourists, so we could only look at the "famous" staircase where Harry Potter and his friends walked around and see the dining room - which is tiny in reality compared to this huge hall it is in the movie! But hey, that's Hollywood, right? ;)
Afterwards we went back to the city centre, took a look at the shopping centre (yes, we're bad, I know...) and headed back to the coach - stupid as we are, we thought we had to be back there at 12.45 but when nobody was there we realised that we had another full hour to spend there! This gave us the opportunity to "climb" up the highest tower in the city centre (which you can see on this picture - sorry, I can't upload my own pix, so I have to make do with the ones I find on the internet... with the advantage that the weather's always nice on these pictures here! ;)). We ended up standing up there for almost half an hour, looking down on the city, simply enjoying ourselves - and listening to music from my iPod which had to fulfill one condition: to contain the lyrics "fly" or "flying" or something like that - it was sooo funny! :) To those who've seen Ice Age 2, can you imagine our laughing fit when we listened to "I believe I can fly"??? ;)
In the end we had to hurry back to the coach to make it there by 1.45 - to go to the next stop: Blenheim Palace!