Well, you *could* come down to Oxford - admittedly the city's rather more interesting than I am! It's full of museums and colleges, and got some pretty parks. A whole bunch of things have been filmed in Oxford, including Inspector Morse, Lewis, bits of Harry Potter, and Brideshead Revisited. The Ashmolean Museum's recently been refurbished and redesigned and is, apparently, outstanding (I've yet to find time for a visit - it's one of those musuems that you can't do all in one go!); the Pitt Rivers is also fascinatingly good. If you prefer the outdoors, there's the Botanical Garden - admittedly not as extensive as the one out at Kew (London), but still! And there's the famous Bodleian Library where people like Lewis, Tolkien, Pullman, Blake, etc have worked.