Oxford

As promised, here are a few more pictures from my trip to Oxford. Sadly, there's a limit to how many pictures I can put in one post, so I'm just giving you a select few. If you want to see more later, let me know.

This is an old case that printers in the 16th and 17th centuries used to keep their letters in. Incidentally, the capital letters are kept in the "upper case" and the small letters are kept in the "lower case."

I got to try out the printing press! That thing is harder to use than it looks. Printers in the olden days must have had some pretty big muscles! (Check out the red spots on the back of my neck. Those are some of my hair-dryer-explosion burns.)

That's the original printing plate that was used to print a specially designed page of Alice in Wonderland.

This is the monument built to honor the martyrs who were killed during the Protestant Reformation.

And this is the outside of the old Bodleian Library at Oxford. It's been in use since the 16th century. I wish I could show you some of the very cool things inside, but I wasn't allowed to take my camera with me on the tour.