Oxford & Reading

Today we went on an adventure to Oxford, we jumped on a train at Paddington and arrived nice and early.

Oxford which felt a lot like St. Andrews and there were groups of Italian school children everywhere!

We walked down the high street, which had the same shops as any other high street but the buildings were all fancy and old.

We went for a wander around the university, which had lots of lovely cobbled streets.

We sat next to the canal for a while and watched the rowers practicing.

There was also an Alice in Wonderland shop filled with all things Alice. I was tempted by a pocket watch but just ended up getting Miquette Breitenbach a rubber for her collection.

We had a look through the covered market which was filled with pretty little shops covered in fairy lights.

We walked down to the Botanical Gardens but decided not to go in, as we wanted to look around the rest of the city.

We went for a drink in the Half Moon where we found a huge pile of the Ocelot Mag.

It turns out that Norman Tallman wasn’t lying about having a magazine in Oxford and he’s not lying about having a fiance in Canada either.

We then had lunch in a church which had been converted in to a bar.

We then headed to Reading, where we were disappointed to find out that the exciting sounding Oracle was just a shopping centre.

We went for a drink in a pub which brews it’s on beer on site before heading back to London.

We stopped in to Daniela's Lounge for a coffee and the most amazing brownie on our walk home.