Everything worked like clockwork. Because I am a lucky girl.

I planned to be there on a Tuesday-lots of things I wanted to see are unavailable on Monday.

I got the last space on a walking tour of Oxford University, given by the official Tourist Information.

We went pretty thoroughly through Exeter College--a popular location for Inspector Morse and alma mater to Richard Burton (the actor), JRR Tolkien, and William Morris, and a few other thousand brilliant people.

Past Radcliffe Camera, which is a reading room that is part of the (gasp) Bodleian Library. To the Shelldonian Theater. More.

I marched to the Ashmolean Museum. In England, this land of free museums that set the standard around the world, The Ashmoleon Museum was The First. It started with one person's collection. And now, in a perfectly digestible building, there is a big of absolutely everything.

I'd managed to get the last ticket to a tour of the Bodleian Library, so back I went. The Bodleian is like our Library of Congress. They get a copy of everything printed in England. They built a new, high-tech facility in another town and truck stuff in on request. You know me better than to think that interested me.

I was here for the old stuff. She took us upstairs. We stood in Harry Potter's Library. Here is where he tiptoed with the Invisibility Cloak. Here are where the 1,000s of books that date from the 1500s, 1600s, etc. live. Those that lived through first Henry's and then the Reformation's burning of books. If they lived, they are here.

Then a bite to eat before going to Evensong at Christ Church Cathedral. Christ Church is a college of Oxford University, and its chapel is the Cathedral for the city of Oxford. It was no open to visitors on Tuesday, and as a church, it is open to worshippers. It is a gorgeous, small Cathedral. And sad. There is a lovely dedication as you walk in, to the sons this college lost in the First and Second World Wars.