Day 3; Oxford

Good Morning from Oxford,
March 18, 2016
We've all had a restful night despite the loud partying outside our windows last night at a local bar for St. Patrick's day.   However, Tina is a bit under the weather and plans to stay inside today and forego the scheduled bike excursion.

Yesterday we all spent a wonderful day touristing around Oxford with our guide Brian.  We walked around many of the Oxford colleges and learned how they started individually and then blended into one university named Oxford.  Each college has a library, living quarters,  dining hall and a chapel.  We toured Christ Church college started by Henry VIII, when he threw out the Catholics.  I'll add some pictures below of it.  The dining hall was in the Harry Potter films.

In the afternoon we left Oxford with another guide named Martin and drove out to  the Cotswold area. We chatted in the car about the British TV shows filmed in the area such as "Midsummer Mystery" and "Downton".    We stopped for lunch at a quaint cottage restaurant, each of had a delicious English lunch.  I had Beef Pie, Nancy had Fish and Chips and Tina had a vegetable sandwich with "hand cut Fries".  Martin had a sandwich with "Skinny Fries", (like McDonald's).
We toured Bampton, where Downton filmed the village scenes.  Below are some pictures of the Hospital entrance, Mrs. Crawley's house and the Church where three Downton weddings were held.
----Amy-----    P.s. Pictures will come later