Vacation Highlight Reel: Oxford

The 9 best things we did (and ate and saw) in the home of the oldest English-speaking university in the world.

Greetings eaters and readers! We’ve just returned from Oxford — our daughter, Abby, is studying there for a semester, and that was all the excuse we needed to head over for a long weekend. Like our London trip to visit her sister Phoebe last year, the priority was to get a feel for our daughter’s life in Oxford, not to tick every box on a tourist’s checklist. But having said that, we covered some serious ground in five days. Here were the highlights…