Day 5 - Travel to Oxford

So this morning, we checked out of the Hostel in London and took the train to Oxford.  While at the Oxford station, I checked into reserving seats on the next train (to Telford Central) - free and taken care of.  From there we walked the 2K to our guest house and dropped off the bags.  Then we hot footed it back to the Oxford Museum of Science.  What does it mean that my students think this museum is "cooler than the British Museum".

Memorable items at the Oxford Science Museum include the blackboard Einstein used when he lectured at Oxford, Boyle's vacuum pump, and an hour glass that counts by quarter hours and will definitely make an appearance in my next Integral Calculus course.

There was a very friendly gentleman in the Basement who told us about the Einstein blackboard, other museums to go to in Oxford, his fame of having his mother live next to Chelsea Clinton when she was a student at Oxford (the students asked who Chelsea was), and his memories of being at a famous event which he finally admitted after many hints was a Rock concert the year after I was born.  I didn't mention the last part.

By the time we returned to the guest house, we were starting to figure out the layout of the city, but it is complicated because all the colleges are surrounded by high walls.