This morning I was rather unceremoniously awoken by the cleaning lady wishing to clean my room at 8.30am. SERIOUSLY? Now I know country folk wake up a bit early but SERIOUSLY. So I got up tried to have a shower but realised it was fucked Sheree so in not the best of moods packed up and headed back to Oxford.
Thankfully the folk at the Central Backpackers were a lot nicer and mellowed my mood somewhat. I headed out to check out Oxford which is very picturesque but expensive. Anything that you would want to visit will cost you at least 6 squids so I mainly just wandered around - trying to find the pub where Bob Hawke still has the record of the quickest beer drinking of a yard glass.
Visited this place where bits of Harry Potter was filmed.
Heading back to the hostel I noticed the Oxford Castle and figured maybe this was something worth paying to see. And I was extremely glad that I did for as it turns out it was the Oxford Jail since the 1700s.
The guided tour was very good and it was interesting to see that the jail cells had been transformed in part into expensive hotel suites. At the time he would have been here it was one of the best jails in the country - being one of the first to move to single cell occupancy after John Howard's (not little Johnny mother) recommended changes to prison reform at the time.
It only ended being a jail in 1996 at that time was one of the worst in the country - not because of the inmates but because of the antiquity of its design and the fact that the cells that had been designed for one occupant now housed three.
Well worth the 8 squids to visit.
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