An American is Loose on British Roads (Friday, May 3)

Our view from breakfast this morning! It is so bright and sunny today.  They say we came at the right time because it JUST started to get pretty.  It's not nearly as cold as I thought it would be so I'm glad I brought sleeveless shirts and a sweater.

Today's special:  Calves Liver.  Posted right under a painting of Windsor Castle.  Yuck.

My full English breakfast.  Tea, apple juice, yogurt (they pronounce it "yuggert"), hash browns, black pudding (tastes like burned sausage), scrambled eggs, bacon, grapefruit and "apricots soaked in honey" (anyone remember what movie that line came from?)  It was SO good.  Craig and I didn't get hungry again until supper time.

At the train station....We traveled to Oxford by Western Express, stopping to change trains at Slough (rhymes with cow).

In Oxford we took the CS Lewis walking tour, which I downloaded at home from the internet.  This is the door of the inn where Clive stayed his first night in Oxford.

You can rent a punt or a rowboat and paddle around.  I wanted to, but not the person I was with. :)

Craig in front of the Magdalen Tower, the tallest in Oxford, part of Magdalen College.  Oxford isn't one University, it's a collection of colleges.  All very old and very beautiful.

I'm door obsessed here.  But just wait until tomorrow.....I'm going to get obsessed with something else!

He didn't mind his head.

I did!

Waiting for Lewis and Tolkien to show up for an Inklings meeting. :)

Craig driving!!!!  It's not so hard.  He's doing an professional job!  We get in the car each morning and say, "left, left, left".  He says it's the only time we'll ever think that way. :)

Burford, one of the little market towns we went through on our way to Chipping Camden.  I think market town means the village has a town hall (very old and very beautiful) in which they hold some kind of market every Sat.  More tomorrow.

Cool Burford door.

Post Office!

Outside the Noel Arms, our hotel for the next two nites.  It's very old and very beautiful (!!!), also very charming and squeaky.  The only thing we didn't like is we couldn't get the internet to work to check in.

Our up high window at our hotel.  Two of the walls were this stone, called Cotswolds Stone.  They're very proud of the stone.
Off to explore villages tomorrow!