For my birthday treat this year Sue and I went to Oxford for the weekend and stayed in a swanky hotel called the Randolph (where Morse would often drink) right in the middle of this spectacular city. I had wanted to go see the modernised Ashmolean Museum and a Steampunk exhibition.
The hotel was conveniently opposite the Ashmolean and so we spent an enjoyable few hours soaking up the culture, before moving on to have a meal in a very old down a narrow alleyway pub off the high street.
Replete we continued our education with a visit to Christ Church where we took a self guided tour around the university and saw where Lewis Carroll got inspiration for Alice in Wonderland and where some scenes from Harry Potter were filmed among the great and the good whose pictures lined the walls, and where history fair oozed out of the ground.
We wandered the streets and looked in other universities and historical buildings until we came to the Museum of the History of Science where the Steampunk exhibition was being held. We nipped in and were blown away by the artwork on display (more in a separate blog).
We had a slap-up meal at the hotel of exceptional standards and indulged ourselves in some fine wine before retiring quite contented to our sumptuous room.
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