An Afternoon Trip to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies
Unlike most of my excursions to other Oxford colleges, my visit to the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies warrants a short blog post for its sheer bizarreness. The OCIS gardens are only open once a week for a mere two hours: Every Tuesday between four and six o’clock. They also lie quite far away from the city centre, facing Magdalen College from the other side of the river Cherwell. Thus, visiting the OCIS gardens on a whim is near impossible, and for many months I had made my calendar send me a weekly reminder of the gardens being open without ever having the time to follow through.