Oxford trip

While some friends are with us, we decided to check out Oxford. Yes, the real Oxford where the University is.

It's a nice place, and I want to go back when I can spend more time. Unfortunately, it is not very tourist friendly nor kid friendly. But what else should one expect from a university town?

We did the Park and Ride at Thornhill and I would suggest that too. It's free to park and £4 for two adults for a round trip. But before you go do a little bit of planning if you have small children. The buses only allow one stroller per bus. Everyone else must take their child(ren) out of the strollers and collapse the strollers and stow them (obviously the strollers not the children) as if they were luggage.

It's a bustling place there at Oxford so be prepared.

From Thornhill we rode the bus to High Street and walked to 49 St. Giles and had lunch at the Eagle and Child Pub, famous for its former frequent visitors, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien and their Inklings buddies. Little Ida Claire and her cohorts were pretty noisy themselves. But IC even more so since she was sleepy and screams just before lights out.

If you decide to take in a meal, I'd suggest skipping the hamburger and go for the house specialties, the pies.

Getting back to the Park and Ride station presented us with a challenge. Oxford has a lot of buses. So finding the bus back to Thornhill was no easy task. We walked back to where we were dropped off and kept walking and finally found the bus back to the Park and Ride.

But as I said earliler, with a little bit of pre-planning, you can have a fun time at Oxford imaging yourself as an true erudite.