Our last big trip was a day journey to Oxford (we stayed over at the Colonnade Hotel in Warwick Avenue, our wedding hotel, near the frozen(!) canal). It was snowy en route but wet and grey in the university town – perfect conditions for a day of museums.
The new Ashmolean was a revelation – first class exhibits excellent displayed in an attractive new building. Well worth a visit for culture-vulture Londoners!
We also stopped in at the History of Science museum to see Einstein’s blackboard and Lawrence of Arabia’s camera, as well as a fun cyberpunk exhibition.
But the highlight of the day was the wonderfully eccentric and eternally fascinating Pitt Rivers museum. How can you go wrong with shrunken heads, live cockroaches, dinosaur bones and totem poles all crammed together in an atmospheric high Victorian palace of science? Best. Museum. Ever.
And that was our UK trip. Pretty much 100% a success with fun around every corner. Except the journey home, which involved a 40-mile traffic jam, missing our flight, running through Heathrow, sitting around Heathrow, squeezing on to a flight to LA, missing another flight, staying a night and finally arriving home a day late to a house with no heating. But that, as they say, is another story.
Here’s a photo of Karen and me in front a British Christmas tree to end on. Blame the sherry for our ‘wacky’ expressions.
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