A weekend in the country

Once again sorry for the delay in getting these pictures up, but I have had a few things I had to sort out this week with work and haven't had a chance.

Oxford

I managed to get out of London for 4 days, and it was really a spare of the moment decision... one I'm glad that I made. After a somewhat shakey start (didn't have my passport with me to rent the car) we left London around 1:30pm when we were suppose to leave around 10am. Better late than never! Tash and myself headed towards Oxford where we decided to stay the night so we could have a look around. It is an absolutely beautiful place. Sandstone buildings everywhere... seems like there is so much history there. The day we got there happened to be one of the college's graduation so the night before there were around 10000 people drinking and partying all over the place. We staying in a lovely B&B for the night, unfortunately we didn't have that much time to leave the next day to get to York. Would definately have liked to stay a few days there...

Stratford Upon Avon

On our way to York we came across Stratford Upon Avon. Was really by chance, as we never planned to go there. For those of you who don't know (me included until I got there), Startford is the birthplace of William Shakespeare. The house that he was born in is still standing, and a very popular tourist attraction. We only spent around 2 hours here, and took the following photos.

York

Our next port of call was York. Was an awesome place. It still has the castle walls around the centre of town; as well as four castle gates that you actually drive through to get into the city centre. This place has soooooooo much history, dating way back to the Roman days. Then there is the 'Minister' Cathederal! It is HUGE! We got to go to the top of the tower, which was around 275 steps. Needless to say by the time we got to the top I was exhausted. The views were spectacular, and well worth the effort. Once again, you could stay there for a few days and try and take in everything, but we only had two days there.

And there we have it. Enjoy