Peak District to Oxford, England
In a quest to visit as much of Sean's hero, Winston Churchill's, province, we stopped at Blenheim Palace. Churchill's childhood home, .
It was a beautiful building and after a week of exploring ruins, it was nice to see an intact building.
It was closed.
Apparently they were filming a movie or TV show there.
A lot of movies/series have been shot there, including Harry Potter movies, Downton Abbey, and several James Bond films.We don't know what they were actually filming on this day, but it was fun to see the preparation going on outside, at least.
Nearby was Churchill's gravesite, so we stopped to pay our respects.
Then headed on down the road to Oxford.
Another stop to do laundry, then we started exploring the 39 colleges that make up the University of Oxford.
And the part I was most excited to see: The Bodleian Library.
If you want to research American History you go to the Library of Congress. If you want to research European History, you go to the Bodleian.
Just more of my geekness spilling out.
We were headed back to Woking the next morning to return the motorcycle, so we had a fairly early night, but the town still pulsated with people, history and energy, long after we hit the sack.
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