Hard to believe today is the 22nd anniversary of the 9-11 attacks.
Last night we stayed at The King Heads Inn in Chipping Norton. Temperatures reached 91 degrees yesterday which is the hottest we have had on the trip and The Inn does not have A/C making it pretty uncomfortable until the sun went down. We had dinner at the Inn and I had my first proper Sunday meal with Yorkshire Pudding. It was a very filling dish with beef and vegetables.
Before we checked in last night we visited Diddly Squat Farm Shop owned by Jeremy Clarkson and featured on his TV show. It was fun to check it out. We had some ice cream and sat next to 3 young people in their 20s and 30s, two of whom worked for Nissan. We had a great conversation covering everything from speed limits to electric vehicles and inflation. One thing we didn't discuss much was politics, they didn't seem interested in talking about it.
On our way to our hotel today, we stopped in Oxford and had a self-guided tour of Christ Church and Oxford University using a recording and headset. Christ Church is one of the 44 colleges that make up the University of Oxford. It is a huge compus and church grounds. You may recognize several of our pictures below from the Harry Potter movies. Some scenes used the University to inspire movie sets. The University of Oxford, which is near Oxford University, is a collegiate research university in Oxford, England. There is evidence of teaching as early as 1096, making it the oldest university in the English-speaking world and the world's second-oldest university in continuous operation.
Our tracker map for Great Britain. We will cross the English Channel into "The Continent" in 3 days on Friday
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