Nov 23

Today, we went on the train from London to Oxford. When we got there, we went on a walking tour of Oxford – it was pretty cool. A lot of the buildings were hundreds of years old, and we saw where Harry Potter was filmed. I was very cold throughout the tour, and my parents grew sick of my complaining, and left me at the hotel while they went to a Beethoven concert.

Nov 23

Today we went to three museums, none of which I liked very much. First we went to the Oxford Museum of Natural History, where we saw bones from an extinct (dodo) bird – that was that museum’s highlight. Next, we went to the Ashmolean Art Museum (also at Oxford, also not fascinating), and finally to the Museum of Science – which was a bunch of old scientific instruments like astrolabes, that you couldn’t touch. Also there was one really cool thing there – the blackboard with the writing on it still, where Einstein had written a bunch of equations about the expansion of the universe.

Nov 24

Today we were in transit from Oxford to York. We arrived at an AWESOME CASTLE HOTEL

Nov 25

Today we woke up in Hazelwood castle and after breakfast we explored the old cathedral by the castle, explored the castle grounds, and fed sugar cubes to a racehorse. It was really great – I wish we could’ve stayed there for another night.