A College Meal in Oxford

Once you have been to a proper English college dinner, you can really understand how realistic something like Harry Potter can be. This Sunday Kath had me and Ben (out of team BaM) up for a traditional Sunday dinner to her college up at Oxford. You walk into a room where the coat of arms (a Lion and Unicorn) decorates the front banners while long dark benches lit with candles fill the rest of the hall. A high table up front hosts the evening’s guest while the rest of the college members and guests sit at the dark tables. It was a great three course meal, with a hearty traditional Sunday meal of mushroom soup, roast lamb, three veg and mint sauce, and a rhubarb pudding to top it all off! Though slightly surreal it really felt like we were dining in the halls of Hogwarts!

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