England Day 3: Oxford (Part 1)

Sheep Pasture traveling from Cambridge to Oxford

We started the day on a 2 hour bus ride from Cambridge to Oxford. I kind of wanted to stop and stroll through the pastures. By the time we got to Oxford all the rain had disappeared, and we were able to enjoy a great afternoon out and about.

The Eagle and Child (or Bird and Baby as the Inklings called it) is the local Oxford pub where Tolkien and C.S. Lewis met weekly to write and share drafts of their stories and scholarly writings. After Tolkien shared The Hobbit with Lewis, Lewis decided to try to write a children's story. From that decision, he wrote The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe. The room shown below is where Tolkien told Lewis that Narnia stories would never sell because they were undeveloped and too hastily written.

I took lots of photos inside the pub and will gladly share them with you at some point.

Next up was the 127 steep step climb to the top of the St. Mary's Chapel Tower.