Oxford, Lacock Village & Bristol

Today, we left The Big Smoke and traveled to Oxford.  The landscape was pastoral on the way and I managed to snap a photo.  The white “dots” are sheep.  As you can see from the sky, our day was overcast all day and rainy some of the time…enough for our raingear but never a downpour.

Oxford was very impressive.  The architecture is breathtaking – particularly when you realize how many centuries have passed and the buildings are still in use.  We were able to go into the library where one of the rooms was used to film the infirmary scenes for the Harry Potter movies.

Noah in the room used as the infirmary in Potter movies

Bridge of Sighs

Lacock Village is a sort of historic preservation site --- often used as the site for filming things like Game of Thrones.  Noah and I didn’t go into the Abbey but we did stumble across some interesting graveyards and snapped a few photos of them as well as some of the houses.

The flowers have been in full bloom and quite impressive.  Caught these two bees enjoying them in spite of the rainy day.

By the time we got to Bristol, it was raining but we went on a city tour anyway.  The city was a famous harbor for hundreds of years but pretty much had to reinvent itself after WWII.  It’s most famous landmark is the suspension bridge which is very high above the Avon River.  (I do not recall exactly how high above the river it is located as I blocked it out completely in order to summon the courage to walk from one end to the other --- and back again.)

 

We had dinner at a local pub and are going to make an early night of it.  Cheerio!