A Day Trip to Oxford

My friend decided that for her Birthday she wanted to take a day trip to Oxford, so that is what we did! We drove to the Park & Ride at Peartree, and the got the bus from there (I would really recommend this as parking and driving around Oxford is notoriously difficult, plus you get to see some of the lovely houses for a bit of a snoop on your way in!) 

Once there we didn’t really have a plan, and set off for a wander around all of the fabulous buildings including the Bodelian Library, Radcliffe Camera, Ashmolean museum and the English version of the Bridge of Sighs, Hertford Bridge.

I have never really spent any time in Oxford, and to get the opportunity to have a wander and look at all of the fabulous buildings. Usually you can go in and have a look around the colleges, but we found that some of them were in the middle of the end of year celebrations, and saw several students wandering blearily around dressed in their robes and garbed in silly string!

There are also some fabulous shops in Oxford including Blackwells bookshop, a haven for anything wordy, a great artshop containing an excellent selection of prints and art and design books, a great covered market selling everything from leather satchels to the catch of the day and The Grand Cafe, England's first coffee house according to Samuel Pepy's Diary of 1650. It really is an amazing looking tea room however unfortunately we were too full to partake, but pressing our noses up against the windows, the baked goods looked amazing!