Oxford and Bath

Today we woke up early to head out on our 3 day bus tour with the school of Oxford, Bath, and eventually Stonehenge.  We arrived at Oxford first thing and headed out to look around this prestigious college town.  We stopped by Christ Church in Oxford to see the cool historical Great Hall that was the inspiration for various shots in the Harry Potter films.  Following is what Christ Church has to say about the films,

"The Great Hall was replicated in the film studios to create Hogwart's Hall. Only one of our portraits moves, sadly, but many of the faces are the real "Wizards" who have changed the way we understand the world. As Harry and the new first-years enter Hogwarts they are greeted by Professor McGonagall. This scene was shot on the 16th century staircase which leads up to the Great Hall......The cloisters in Christ Church were first built 1000 years ago. This ancient vintage made them the ideal setting for various scenes.  It is here that Harry is shown the trophy his father won as a seeker in Quidditch."

We also visited Christ Church Cathedral which is where Charles and John Wesley were ordained.  Afterwards we did a little bit of window shopping, and mainly just looked around the city to find parts of the many colleges that make up Oxford University.  We stopped in at the castle for a look around and then eventually loaded up the bus to travel to Bath, the location of our Hostel for the next two nights.  When in Bath, Amanda and I decided to see what the city had to offer as far as food and nightlife.  Our hostel was on the top of Bathwick Hill and so we had to walk down a steep incline into the city.  We found a quaint little place called Tilly's Bistro so we decided to stop there.  This was a fancy restaurant!  They took our coats and everything.  I tried to order water and he brought me sparkling water!  The food was delicious and we had a two course meal.  Afterwards, we were standing outside in the process of deciding what to do and a crazy man started talking to us about false claims of Sally Lune's (famous tea house).  Apparently they claimed to have the oldest house in Bath, but this is impossible because the parsonage was built before it.  I don't know?!  It was definitely a strange but entertaining conversation.  We walked around some more and met up with some cool locals who showed us the cool places to go.  We had a really good time and they were all really nice.  We called one "Mr. Darcy" all night because he was being very nice (and in celebration of Jane Austen's writings in Bath).  Needless to say we split a taxi to go back to the hostel because we didn't want to climb back up the massive hill!