Oxford and Blenheim Palace

Trade London’s buzz for quiet quads and bell towers: 90 km from the capital, Oxford reveals its dreaming spires in the flesh—Christ Church with its Elizabethan Great Hall, the 17th‑century Bodleian, and James Gibbs’s Radcliffe Camera (1737–1749). Go beyond the postcard at Merton’s cloisters or under Hertford’s Bridge of Sighs to catch real academic life. Later, continue to Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, birthplace of Winston Churchill in 1874 and seat of the Dukes of Marlborough, framed by Capability Brown’s mid‑18th‑century landscape.

Your dedicated driver collects you from your London hotel and keeps the Mercedes at your disposal all day, flexible on pace and detours. While they handle traffic and parking in Oxford, you tour, take photos, and pause for coffee at The Vaults & Garden or a scone in the Covered Market. Then it’s a 30‑minute run to Blenheim to explore the State Rooms and formal gardens without clock‑watching; on the way back, your private chauffeur in London adjusts the route via the A40 or M40 to suit traffic. Tickets can be pre‑arranged, leaving unhurried gaps between visits.