Oxford in July

Through some of our students we've heard that you parents are hungry for more blog posts, so here is another one. Today's been quite warm and mostly sunny. First we visited the medieval town of Salisbury. Since it's Saturday they had an outdoor market where some of us made great bargains. We also visited the one millennium old cathedral where one of the four copys of Magna Carta can be viewed. It's a 800-year-old document signed by King John on a piece of calf skin allowing the church and the nobles more power. This was an early and important step towards dividing political power between many people instead of everybody obeying one ruler. Unfortunately it's in Latin so we didn't understand much.

After a few hours in this beautiful town we went further back in time, in fact back to 3000 BC. That is when archeologists believe the first parts of Stonehenge were built. After a slow cruise (or traffic jam) northwards these giant stones finally appeared in front of us. An impressive mystery, which we now know a bit more about. Tired, and perhaps a bit sunburned we then went home to Oxford to get a rest before future adventures.