Day 1 - Oxford

Yesterday was our travel day. Dale, Christine, Suzanne and Jim met up at Heathrow airport just as planned. After no waiting at all we were on a bus to Oxford and our stay at a guesthouse for 2 nights.

Today, we toured Oxford and caught another of the “Pay As You Will” walking tours of the Oxford University campus and the center city of Oxford. We have discovered these “free” tours in various cities and they are wonderful. We then visited the Ashmolean museum, which is a world class museum concentrating on artifacts from ancient civilizations such as the Romans and Egyptians.

We wrapped up the day by visiting the Christ’s Church meadows, an area of beautiful open space that has been open for centuries. Tomorrow we rent our car and head north. Dale will be the driver and Jim the navigator.Read more