Live life on the wild side

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 ...

Welcome back to the blog!  AND welcome to this weekend long adventure where we take you through our Halloween weekend!  Saturday Saturday day saw us exploring the Hallowsteam event down at Didcot railway station, a place where old steam trains go to be repairs, and they have working steam trains that you can ride, you can go in and out of all the storage sheds, check out the museum and see the collectable shops situated in old carriages, you can walk along the line and chat to the people who volunteer their time to work on the trains and bring them back to their original life.  Hallowsteam took some of these trains and turned them into (family friendly) spooky ghost carriages kitted out with Ghosts, skeletons and other creepy creatures, there was plenty for the family to get involved in with puzzles, crafting and science and more than enough for enthusiast to see in the trains and the collectable stores too!  The steam train was a huge hit as always with its short bu...