Saturday morning we got up and planned the day. Seeing how my aunt and uncle had a wedding to attend in the afternoon we had to find a way to get by on our own. We managed to find a…
I got to the train station in Madrid pretty early and inquired into changing my ticket for an earlier one. It worked and I arrived in Sevilla 2 hours earlier than I had planned.
We arrived in Oxford Saturday afternoon, and got a bit lost looking for our hostel. The first one we came into wasn’t ours, but the second was! Since it was almost 4PM already and we figured lots of things would be closing soon, we decided to take it easy for the rest of the afternoon. Later, on our way to look for a grocery store, we found a leaflet lying on the sidewalk titled: “Oxford Open Doors”. It turns out that this weekend was very special: almost every college in Oxford was opening its doors to the public for free. That was some great luck for us, especially since at first we weren’t supposed to be in Oxford until Tuesday; we were supposed to go to Cornwall first but switched up the dates. If we had visited Oxford later this week, we would have had to pay to visit these colleges and many of them might not even have been accessible.