Getting to Oxford

In Oxford now hanging out with Chris. It was really awesome of him to put us up and shepherd us around the city last night. Unfortunately we arrived too late in the day to do much sightseeing beyond walking through the courtyards and facades of the colleges (see soon to be attached photos) but that was plenty nice and we'll be spending a couple more days in Oxford before leaving England.

The trip to Oxford from Southwark, London wasn't particularly easy due to the Tube strike. After some careful reading of a bus schedule we discovered that we had to take the #15 from just north of the London bridge all the way out west to Paddington Train Station but the first three #15 buses said that they weren't going to Paddington and that we had to wait for the next one. Finally, after about 25 minutes a #15 to Paddington stopped by and Laura and I secured the front seat on the top level of the double-decker - prime seating because the #15 is recommended by our guide as a prime sight-seeing bus. So, that was a nice feature but the bus proceeded to take two hours to get to Paddington - arriving an hour after we had told Chris we planned to be in Oxford.

Anyway, we had a nice evening hanging out with Chris drinking beer. Off to Warwick today.