An early rise this am for a long drive down to Stratford on Avon - a look at Anne Hathaway's Cottage and then a tour of William Shakespeare's House. A most interesting place. After lunch we had a further drive down the motorway past Blenheim Palace (where Winston Churchill was born) to Oxford. This is the oldest University in England and the second oldest after Bologna in Italy. We wandered the streets but had a conducted tour of one of the University Colleges - Brasenose. FOund a painting of a Richard Sutton hanging in the Refectory. There is also a beautiful Chapel. Got back into LOndon by 5pm. The day has been characterised by much anxiety by many of the group as we approached London re their future plans in the knowledge that they will not be able to fly out anywhere. Our levels also were rising a little as well when we tried with the Concierge at the hotel to work out our plans for tomorrow - he said he could probably get us a ferry flight in a week's time!!! He got onto Eurail for us and managed to arrange a rail trip to Brussels for 2-30 tomorrow afternoon and then we will catch a local train through to Amsterdam. So we are on taget and on time but with the bonus of the morning in London this will allow us to do a 2 hour bus trip around London so we will see things that we did not ever think we will be able to see live.
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