Broadway Tower and Oxford

In the morning we headed out to find Broadway Tower.  There was ridiculous traffic on M5 and it took us four hours to go what was supposed to be two and a half hours.  Broadway Tower isn't a huge international tourist destination.  It's not a castle, it's a folly, meaning it was built specifically for decoration without function.

After taking lots of pictures from many different angles, we headed down to the town of Broadway, specifically for a great ice cream stand in town Andy read about.  The town was worth the trip (even without the tasty ice cream).  A small two lane road leads into town which is lined with stone buildings built at least a couple hundred years ago and well maintained.  There were two people manning a bicycle ice cream stand and we bought a cone of toffee and a cone of strawberries and cream and were not disappointed.  We wandered around the town while eating our ice cream then left for Oxford when we were done*.

Once in Oxford we had to find a place to stay having not found a hostel online beforehand.  Luckily, Central Backpackers had two beds in a 12 bed dorm. We wandered around Oxford, saw Christchurch college (the great hall from Harry Potter was filmed there, although it was closed for the night), the Radcliffe Camera, and other small landmarks around the town.

Radcliffe Camera

For dinner we ate at Kebab kid and had some decent food, a veggie naan wrap and fish and chips.  In the morning we headed out to London to drop off the car.  It ended up being more of a debacle than we had predicted it would be, but it all got sorted out after a couple hours or so.  We picked up our train tickets for the morning, saw Kings Cross Station and platform 9 and 3/4 and made microwave dinners in the hostel (no kitchen).

*Technically, we stopped back off at Broadway tower because the clouds had started to clear a bit and we wanted better pictures.