One of the things I definitely wanted to do on my visit to Oxford was to do a tour of the Bodleian Library, to which I did face some obstacles. I’d done a lot of research before my visit and the tour I had really wanted to go on was the 90 minute tour which basically takes in all the places you aren’t normally allowed to go as a member of the public. However, tickets are limited and supposedly go on sale online exactly one month before your proposed visit. I say supposedly because I had been meticulous about working out when that would be (my birthday as it happened) and checked the day before to make sure I had the right page bookmarked only to find out that all the tickets had already sold out. My advice would therefore be not to trust the website and keep checking early every day before your trip. This 90 minute tour is one of only two ways of going inside the Radcliffe Camera building, the other is the Radcliffe Camera and City Walking Tour which I promptly booked and which will feature in a later post.