Travel Information
The most convenient airport for Oxford is London Heathrow; the X70
coach leaves from Stand 10 of the Central Bus Station (Terminals
1, 2, 3) every half-hour (20 minutes earlier from Terminal 4) and
takes just over an hour. From London Gatwick the X80 coach leaves
every hour (stopping at both terminals) and takes just over two
hours. If arriving at London Luton or Stansted, it takes ~3-4
hours to get to Oxford by coach. From London there are two
frequent coach services - the Oxford bus
and the Oxford Tube,
and trains from
Paddington.
If you come by coach from London or the airports you can get off at
"St Clements" and walk ~100 mt to
St Hilda's College (please
tell the driver when he stows your luggage), otherwise take a taxi
from the final stop at Gloucester Green Coach Station (or from the
Railway Station). If coming directly to the meeting take a taxi to
"Clarendon Lab, South Parks Road" - see "How to
get to Oxford Physics" - it is a ~10 min walk from the Bus Station
and ~20 min from the Railway Station.
See also How to Get to Oxford
University or How to Get to Oxford
for more details.
St Hilda's College is strategically located in between East Oxford and
the Town Centre. There are many reasonably priced cafes and resturants
on Cowley Road (e.g. Joe's
Café #21,Café Coco #23, Moonlight Tandoori #58, Hi-Lo Jamaican
Eating House #68, Hajduczek Polish
Resturant #84, Cornacopia
#92, Gashi-Gashi #96, Mario's
Pizzeria #103, Euphrates #126, Oxford Thai #179), Aziz (#228), and
St Clements (e.g. Thai Orchid #58a, The Pink
Giraffe #43). For more upmarket dining walk up the High Street
(e.g. Quod #92, Chiang
Mai Kitchen #130a, India Garden #129a), into Cornmarket (Pizza
Express, Golden Cross), Blue Boar Street (Ma Belle),
or St Aldate's (Resturant
Elizabeth #84).
Close to the Physics Department there are many casual places on
Little Clarendon Street (G & D's, Tapas bar Cerveceria, Pierre
Victoire #9, Michel's Brasserie #10, Café Rouge #11, Beat Cafe),
Walton Street (Freud,
Loch Fyne #55, Le Petit
Blanc #71, Jamal's
#108, Branca
#111, Jericho
Café #112, Bandung
#124), Walton Crescent (Al-Shami
#25), Woodstock Road (Browns
#5-11), Banbury Road (Gee's
#61), North Parade (Luna
Caprese #14, Chez
Gaston Creperie #6, Bagicha #15) etc.
Other recommended places are Edamamé
(#15 Holywell Street), Live
Bait (Turl Street), Zizzi
(George Street), Liason
(#29 Castle Street), Chutneys Indian Brasserie (#36 New Inn Hall
Street), several places on Park End Street (Al-Salam
#6, Cafe
Turmeric, Savannah), Aquavitae
(Folly Bridge), Bangkok House (42a Hythe Bridge Street), Cherwell
Boathouse Resturant (off Bardwell Road) etc. There are several
upmarket places in Summertown, e.g. Gousse D'Ail (#268 Woodstock
Road, Xi'an (#197 Banbury Road), Blue Palms Brasserie (#7 South
Parade), and also more affordable places on Banbury Road (Saffron
#204, The
Bakehouse #240, Greek
Taverna #272) and South Parade (Mama Mia
Pizzeria #8). We could go on ... but perhaps you have by now got
the idea - England is no longer the culinary desert it used to
be!
For a guide to pubs (many of which serve food), check out "Mark, Paul and
Ed's Succinct Guide to Thirty Pubs in/around Oxford".
To see what is on, look up Daily Information. A variety of
information about Oxford can be found here or here.