Today we had booked a tour similar to Saturday’s with the same company.  We were to see Windsor Castle, The Roman Baths and Pump Room and Stonehenge.  We were picked up by the shuttle service at the meeting point and brought to the central location- Victoria Cross Station- and saw lots of people for the same tour.  Too many in fact.  After being shift three times (apparently there were three buses for the said tour), we were left out along with a couple from Australia.  The manager put us in a cab to meet an earlier charter bus at one of their locations.  We got there and they were not helpful.  There was no bus.  There was only the option of a refund or rebooking.  And after some arguing a cab ride back to where we started from- they actually were not going to do that!

So we went with the rebooking and decided to switch tomorrow’s plans with todays’s plans.  We went to Oxford!

We took a bus about an hour north west of the city.  It was a cool place to see!  It is of course a college (university) town.  There are lots of bikes everywhere! After a quick lunch at Pizza Hut (had to keep up the travel tradition- we went to one in India too!), we met up with a tour.  You guessed it, a Harry Potter tour.  This was a walking tour that showed off places in Oxford in the movie.  Our tour guide was a lot of fun- a recent Oxford grad taking a “sabbatical” before figuring out what to be when he grows up!

Aidan loved the trivia and came close to winning the trivia game- a girl from Denmark was a bit quicker.  He even remembered some of the history of London from our tour bus the other day!

It was an unexpected change in plans but everyone did great going with the flow.  It was a good day to get out of the city- loads of traffic as the Tour de France came through!  Hopefully tomorrow we get to see the places we thought we would see today!!