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Chapter two: An Inner City adventure

An adventure with a difference, not all adventures are in the wilderness, Today we took our time exploring part of the city, specifically Oxford! 

We have lived near Oxford and worked there at Various parts of our lives, but never fully explored, we always take the same paths, routes and have done the same things, but today we explored new places. 


We started with a slow paced easy breakfast and a hot drink, watching the world go by before heading off to see our first sight of the day. Christchurch, We had seen the gardens plenty of times, and most of my literary tours include it, but we haven't actually been inside, with the tickets purchased and collected we lined up ready to go in and see the inside of Christchurch. 

Christchurch is famous for various films parts of filming as well as sources of inspiration around a range of stories including alive in wonderland, it is home to students currently going through their studies but is still open to the public to tour for a fee. Is the price worth it? I would say so, we had a good long stroll around, saw some wonderful scenes and relived some of the places familiar through films! 
As well as seeing places within Christ church that have featured in films we also got to see areas that inspired films such as the room that inspired the great hall from Harry Potter. 






Christ Church completed we head off for a short stop of tea and biscuits before we take a short walk around the shops, taking in the sights and seeing if we can get into touring any of the other colleges before a meal out, lunch time rolls around and we make our way to our favourite lunch stop, cosmos, a great opportunity to eat a variety of different foods as and have a good chat! 

The rest of the afternoon is filled with some slow walks around town, taking in the scenes and exploring different roads, finding a few new shops and even checking out some little side streets, I take Chris through a home made riddle based treasure trail with a treat of coffee at the end, if he can crack the clues, this takes us on a wonderful literary tour of oxford. 

We wrap up the evening following our hot drinks with a 3 hour gaming session at the local board game cafe, a chance to play new games, old games and do a bit of game shopping, a great chance to get a new exit game!  

After an early start and a long day we make our way wearily back to the bus, and head home to settle in for the evening. The adventure its self took very little of the adventure bag, in fact all i took was my essentials, phone keys purse, its all i needed. The next adventure may be a little bigger depending on how big i am at the time of it. 

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed this little blog, you can check out the video here: https://youtu.be/jtjNdu3uCvs?si=Pv7pf_AsNizM2vqh




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