London to Coventry

We started our bus tour today, a bit apprehensive about a new group of fellow travellers. There are mostly ozzies on the tour with only a handful of yanks and fellow kiwis so we are pleased about that.

Our first stop was Hampton Court palace - lovely gardens, the palace was very large but not as ornate as the palaces in Europe.




Next stop was Oxford, a city best known for its university. It has a population of 250,000 with quite a bit of industry as well. It's a very pretty town with a lot of beautiful old uni buildings. There were a lot of young people around of course - they had graduation ceremonies today as well.






We had spare time in Oxford so we sat down to a nice pub meal and beer.


Back in to the bus and off to Stratford on Avon with a short stop at the house of Anne Hathaways first - she was William Shakespeares wife. Stratford was another nice town, very quaint and the river area of the Avon was lovely with all the house boats there.











We have stopped outside of Coventry for the night. Coventry is an industrial city mostly known for being destroyed in WW2, not part of the tourist trail.

Tomorrow we spend a bit of time in York which is supposed to be lovely.

The weather was fantastic today and supposed to be the same all week!