Sunday, July 24, 2011

Day 154 - Were we here yesterday?

Luton to Radstock - Radstock Hotel

Having visited Cambridge yesterday today we had to go via Oxford to keep it fair. We walked around the town, and saw more grand buildings, colleges, and European teenagers .... these places are all starting to blend into each other! The obvious difference we could see between Oxford and Cambridge is that Oxford was more like a "regular" town, and much larger and more spread out, and the historical buildings seemed older and grander. As someone described it to us, Cambridge is a university with a town around it, whereas Oxford is a town with a university in it.

Our destination today was to be Bath but we had been warned not to visit on a weekend, so decided to stay overnight and see the sights the following morning. Of course being a major tourist town and it being the holiday season, the accommodation prices were over the top so we stayed in the nearby town of Radstock instead, about 14km from Bath at a nice English pub with good rooms upstairs and a very helpful publican.
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