Day Five: Stratford & Oxford

So this was our fifth and final day in England... *sobs*.  Like day three when we took a little trip out to Stonehenge & Bath, this day we took another excursion to Stratford and then Oxford.  Stratford was probably one of my favorite parts of the trip, it was such a quaint, lovely city with a bunch of cute stands selling all sorts of things and streets with gorgeous houses & gardens.  By the time we got to Oxford, i was pretty tired as we had an early morning & we sat in a boiling hot bus for hours, so i didn't particularly have a spectacular time there, it was still really nice though.

The day was a bit of blur, so i don't have much to say about the places we visited.  We did a lot of touristy things, but got to explore a bit, which was nice.

Stratford

Shakespeare's birthplace - we did the tour thing here, pretty cool.

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Streets of Stratford, it was a nice day so everyone was out enjoying the day. :)

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Holy Trinity Church and Shakespeare's grave

Anne Hathaway's cottage - it was so gorgeous there!  The people & the surroundings were so lovely.  I signed Shakespeare's birthday card, was kinda cool to see all the other signatures on there - though one person did say "JK Rowling is better" -_-

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Lazying it up on the bus, on the way to Oxford.

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Oxford

Just have a random mish-mash of photos from Oxford, don't exactly remember what we all saw while we were there.  Just walked around the campus really & bought obligatory Oxford gear. ;)  I got a bright green hoodie & grabbed a cresant for lunch (wasn't the same without strawberry jam).

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We then went back to London for dinner and to see the musical Wicked at the Apollo Victoria Theatre.  Wicked was ah-mazing.  I'm not much of a theatre person necessarily, but it was so good!  Defying Gravity definitely teared me up, the actors were all incredibly talented and the story was really interesting - would definitely recommend it. :)

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After Wicked, we all pretty much went back to the hotel and packed all our stuff up so we didn't have to do it in the morning.  The next morning we had a quick breakfast & headed to King's Cross St. Pancras station to take the train to Paris. ♥  So expect a post or two with pictures from Paris!

Previous posts

Days one & two: London

Day three: Stonehenge & Bath

Day four: London & Greenwich

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Day Four: London & Greenwich

I tried to edit down the photos that i was going to put in this post, but i felt like there was just too much i wanted to share with you guys to just abandon some of them!  So don't mind the mass amount of picture spam...  Since there were so many photos i tried to let the pictures speak for themselves, and i'm not in the mood to type a novel of a blog post to be honest.  As i said in the past two posts i did on this trip, the weather was absolutely gorgeous and i had a fantastic time.

The fourth day of our stay in London, we visited the Tower of London in the morning, took a ferry to Greenwich for the afternoon, and went back to London for dinner, a ride on the London Eye, and free time.  Greenwich was so lovely, it's definitely a nice place to go for a day trip imo, so many cute cafes, shops, and things to see/visit.

I put a few captions to the photos so for a bit more info, read those. :)

Our hotel room.  My bed's the one in the corner by the window...Don't worry, i tidied it up before i left. ;)

We went on the tube & got off at Tower Hill bright and early in the morning to visit the Tower of London.

Just a few photos around the Tower of London.  We saw the crown jewels and everything - my jaw was literally on the floor the entire time.  So worth the wait, everything was absolutely stunning.

Tower Bridge. :)

After exploring around the Tower of London for a few hours, we then took a ferry along the River Thames to Greenwich, which was about a thirty minute journey.

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Greenwich

Once we hopped off the ferry, we took a little walk over to the National Maritime Museum where we then had some free time to explore the museum, browse through the markets, grab a bit of lunch, etc.  My friends & i decided to take the hike (after much debate, the hill was MASSIVE) up to the Royal Observatory where you can stand on the Prime Meridian line (which you had to pay for, so we didn't haha) and have a really fantastic view of London - it was worth the trek.

Royal Observatory

View from the top... so lovely. :)

And there it is again, after we essentially rolled down the hill and had a walk through the field behind the museum!

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Back to London....

A monument i forget the name of...  #touristfail

Leadenhall Market, which i was told inspired our beloved Harry Potter's Diagon Alley.

Had to take some touristy shots of buildings on our walk to dinner.

Took a sneaky photo in the stairwell of the restaurant, as you do.  I just liked the chandelier/mirror/window combo.  I'm a loser. :D

My friends & i quick stopped back at the hotel and then made our way to the London Eye.  I have to say the area by the Eye is soo lovely!  I'm petrified of heights but made myself go on it anyway, i knew i'd regret it if i didn't.  None of my photos really turned out (darkness = low shutter speed = a blurry hot mess of a picture) except for the one i took of the metalbarsstructurewhatever, of course. :P

I think this was on the wall leading into a station or something, i thought it was sweet.

Previous posts on the trip:

Days one & two

Day three

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