For the next few days I'll be posting thoughts and photos from our most amazing vacation in England. The photos here are from a brief 1 1/2 day drive and walk through the Cotswolds and Oxford. A week would be more reasonable! "The Cotswolds" refers to the charming hilly (hill=wold) region northwest of London that features Painswick, Stow-on-the-Wold, Chipping Campden, ... and Oxford, well ..., is amazing. I didn't realize that all of the 36 (I think that's the number) of colleges in Oxford were built/begun in the 1600s! The inn in which we stayed is from that period and is made up of some attached Flemish cottages that were used by the lowly laborers who served the more educated. The cobblestones at the inn date back to Medieval times.
Jim's dreams will never be the same after driving this little gem for a day!
Local musical groups, some more serious than others, appear out of nowhere! Delightful!
And, Jim wanted me to take this photo of him as proof that he "studied in Oxford!" Yeah, right!
2 comments:
Tell Jim I totally buy the Thinker thing.
He'll be so thrilled to hear that! :-)
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