Living in Oxford
Since you’ll be living as Englishmen and Englishwomen do, you will doubtlessly find a pub where you feel welcome and comfortable. You’ll call it, as the English do, your “local.” FYI: Pub culture doesn’t encourage or even allow excessive drinking.
Oxford is a real city, and Trinity right in the middle of it. Across from the main gate you’ll find small restaurants and shops. One block away is the city’s pedestrian main shopping street, cobblestone Cornmarket Street.
It’s a short walk to the bus station, the train station, the public library, the Ashmolean and the University Museums, shopping malls, and dozens of other shops, restaurants, pubs and theaters. Within two blocks are a grocery store, a drug store, cell phone shops, ATMs and several boutiques and gift shops.
The University Parks, with miles of beautifully landscaped paths along the river, are nice for running, sunning or funning.