Oxford for the day…

On Saturday, Robyn and I went up to Oxford to see Brett, Chenay, Sophie and Amber one last time before they head back to the States on Thursday. Oxford is about 80 miles (128km) North-west of London and only about an hour-and-a-half trip on the Oxford tube (which is actually a bus not a tube) which leaves from Victoria.

We arrived around lunch time and strolled through the bustling city centre, passed a few of the colleges (Trinity, Magdalen) down the main high-street and through the botanical gardens to possibly the most impressive Colleges of them all, Christchurch. Oxford is definitely one of the prettiest, most photogenic towns I've had the pleasure of visiting in England. Not that I've been too many, but still. The weather was a bit iffy, as you no doubt will have noticed in the photo's, so we decided to head somewhere cosy and dry for a quiet pub lunch. However, not before stopping for a quick monkeying around session in the kids park! Some of you may remember seeing photo's of Robyn and I playing silly buggers in a park last year in Oxford, well we went to that very same park again and dominated all the rides…again!(Coincidentally, the hotel where Brett, Chenay and the kids were staying, was opposite the B&B where Robyn and I stayed last year).

Oxford has so many really classic English pubs, it really is quite difficult to decide where to go. The Isis, The Trout, The Head of the River and the list goes on. So after much discussion we went to 'The Bear and Ragged Staff'(no jokes) but ended up only having a pint there because their kitchen was closed. Wollies, great pub though. So The Fox it was. After a really good catch up and some tasty food the time had come for us to say our goodbyes and make our way back to London, and that was that.

Thanks for a top day guys.

Shuz