Oxfordshire

The Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford

Back in June, thankfully before the first of our heatwaves, I spent a long weekend in Oxford. I’ve actually been to the city a number of times, but always to meet up with friends as its a convenient half way point to where we were all living, but I’d never gone into any of the museums or libraries that Oxford is famous for and decided it was time to rectify that. The first place I visited after checking into my hotel was The Sheldonian Theatre. In fact I visited here twice, the first time to go inside the cupola and the second to attend a violin concerto.

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A Christmas Retrospective

As doing any kind of Christmas travelling this year has not been possible I decided to do a round up of some previous trips, using mostly photos I haven’t posted here before. First up is the trip I took with a friend to the Christmas Light Show at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire in 2018.

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The Illuminated Christmas Lights Trail at Blenheim Palace

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Last weekend a friend and I travelled to Blenheim Palace for the Illuminated Christmas Lights Trail. Our tickets were for 5pm so we had just over an hour to explore the Christmas Market in the daylight and have a bite to eat from some of the many food vendors before heading along the trail.

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Cotswold Wildlife Park

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We only found out the Cotswold Wildlife Park was near where we were staying the day before we went, and we were very glad we did. The website advised to plan to take at least four hours to go around the 160 acres of parkland and we actually spent well over five hours there and even then we didn’t see everything.

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Oxford

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Last weekend I met up with a couple of friends in Oxford and in between catching up with them we did a brief spot of sight-seeing. A few of the pics I took are below.

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