Field Trip Chronicles: Three Cities

This is my second post about the places we visited when my parents were here.  This time I’m writing about the cities of Chester, London, and Oxford.  We didn’t visit them on consecutive days, but I wanted to post about them together.  It was fun showing my parents Chester and London, but Oxford was new for the kids and me, and I loved it!

Chester

I’m including Snugbury’s (a dairy farm ice cream shop)because we stopped there for ice cream on the way to Chester.  Their ice cream is pretty awesome, so of course we had to take my parents!  We also got to see piglets.

Okay, here’s our day in Chester (we visited the Chester Cathedral, Roman walls, Roman Gardens, Roman amphitheatre, the River Dee, and the town centre):

London

We did London in one day, and my only regret is running out of time to show my parents St. Paul’s Cathedral.  We still got to see a lot, though.  The weather was rainy on and off all day, but we only got really wet at Buckingham Palace.  We saw Buckingham Palace, Big Ben and Parliament, the London Eye (didn’t ride it, but it’s the first time I had been on that side of the river), Westminster Abbey, 10 Downing Street, Trafalgar Square, Tower of London, and Tower Bridge.  We’ve seen the Tower Bridge several times, but this was the first time we had seen the draw-bridge (bascule bridge) go up, so that was interesting.

                          

Oxford

On our way back from the south part of England, we stopped in Oxford.  Greg had been there once before, but the kids and I never had.  I can’t tell you the names of all the places, but the buildings are amazing.  It was pretty cool to think that I was walking where C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien (two of my favorite authors) once walked.  We missed riding a double-decker bus in London, so my parents were pleased to get to ride one in Oxford.    

That’s it for this post.  The next one will be about our travels to North Wales!