Outings in Oxford

Early morning this morning so we could haul all our luggage to the train station. We made it there early and got a coffee and toast for breakfast while we waited.  Once on the train we were on our way to Oxford.  We of course played a lot of cards on the trip.  When we arrived in to Oxford it was time to haul the cases to the hotel, dump them in the door and head out for our walking tour of Oxford.



While on the tour we went around and saw various buildings and colleges that make up Oxford University (39 colleges in total) as a whole. We saw some big fancy libraries,  some dining halls and. lot of old buildings. We also saw the alley way that gave CS Lewis the ideas that lead to the writing of The Chronicles of Narnia.




























After our tour we headed back to the hotel to officially check in and drop more stuff off and then headed back out on our own walking tour of Oxford. Obviously Claire peaked as tour guide yesterday in Liverpool and todays efforts were not to great (decided not to involve google maps this time) and we walked what felt like half way to London before we asked google for help.  Claire should have listened to Carrie when she said "let's go left."  Anyway, after all of that Carrie decided it was pint o'clock and it was time to find a watering hole.  We found a good little pub with outside seating (it was an absolute cracking day weather wise today) and we could people watch while we had a beverage.  Decided the people watching was so good, that we would sit and have another.


After people watching we headed back to the hotel to get changed and go and meet Rachel (one of Carries friends from a tour to Sri Lanka 11 years ago).  We ate dinner at a great Indian place that had awesome fairy lights throughout and swing seats. After a lovely dinner and a great catch up, it was time to head back to the hotel and time for bed as we are heading off on the train to London tomorrow.

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