Setting out early in the morning, we caught the train to Oxford. It is nice to catch an express train, the difference can be 2 hours or more. With the plan of looking around and staying the night, we started looking for some local accommodation so we could set off and not worry about it later. It turned out a good thing we started looking because there was none. None in Oxford and none in the surrounding towns or villages. The number of tourists in Oxford was amazing, they were everywhere. On the verge of giving up, we decided to ring Warwick information to see if there was any there, there was, we booked it, we were set.

Oxford is a pretty small town, and is as you would imagine completely built around the University (the first one in England). The story goes, some time back in the day, England had a falling out with France (as we all do) and weren’t allowed to send pupils to University there, so a local one was established. We got on an open top double decker all day ‘jump on, jump off’ tourist bus. It was good, it went to all the University colleges, Museums and anything of interest with a live guide giving very good commentary. There isn’t much to say really, we saw lots of colleges, all stone and all pretty old. I think I am starting to get adjusted to very old stone work/buildings and am just not finding it as impressive which it is.

After our touring of Oxford, we finished the perfect day of weather by strolling up and down a very thin Thames lined with house boats.

Check out the other Oxford photos here.