Oxford Express

A sweet woman who works with dh, came over for dinner before our trip and told us all about her years in Oxford as a student. She gave us a lot of good ideas, and so we booked the Oxford Express, and went as daytrippers to Oxford. The fares for over 60 were especially sweet @ 8 pounds each return.

Upon a rainy arrival, it seemed a good thing to have a cuppa tea for fortification. Patisserie Valerie hit the spot, and had my favorite teapot - Again!

We walked and walked, with both a guidebook and the college recommendations.

But most of the day it was a case of being a few minutes late, or on the wrong day or just not clicking with the colleges we had hoped to visit. But seeing the truly medieval look of Oxford was just about enough.

But we considered visiting the Bodleian Library but decided that a lot of these very special places would take most of our day, so we passed. Had we been spending a week in Oxford it would have been a different story. But just look at this architecture!

Lunch was a quick one in a bookstore right outside the Bodleian and I enjoyed watching this student(?) talking with her family (?).

Back outside, it was still raining and yet another site was closed.

We had spent a good time in the gorgeous Bodleian giftshop (no photos please!) and the Ashmolean had a great number of wants for me, that I wisely didn't buy, but appreciated. So now a walk down to the market, which was also about to close. More dry goods and stuff at this time of day but still enough food to remind one that it was a market.

We saw Jamie's Italian but it was too soon for dinner tho Italian sounded quite tempting on the chilly drizzly day.

So, what do we do for the rest of the day before trying to hear Evensong at one of the colleges???