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    Witney

    February 3, 2019

    I’d never been to Witney before.  I knew of it, of course; it was the constituency of our former Prime Minister, after all.  But, I thought, how will I know what it’s really like…

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  • Bicester

    Bicester

    January 6, 2019

    It’s the new year, so the festive posts are over; that said, I haven’t had chance to go anywhere yet in 2019, except Leeds.  Luckily, I went somewhere last year that I still haven’t…

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  • Quiz of the year

    Quiz of the year

    December 30, 2018

    We’re still in the festive period, so what better way to celebrate than with a quiz?  And what’s even better than a quiz?  A quiz with a prize, of course! I’ll put some full…

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  • Blog break: Christmas

    Blog break: Christmas

    December 23, 2018

    It is, of course, Christmas in two days’ time.  So what better way to celebrate than by answering the burning hypothetical question: what if some of our best-loved Christmas carols were not written about…

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  • London: a random Tube journey, part III

    London: a random Tube journey, part III

    December 16, 2018

    For what is likely to be my last actual-going-somewhere post of the year, I found myself in London, and decided to continue my random journey around the Tube.  When we left off, my random…

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  • Oxford: around the ring road

    Oxford: around the ring road

    December 2, 2018

    I’ve spent this weekend house-hunting, so I don’t actually have anything to say about a new place I’ve been. But I have now spent a lot of time going to all sorts of obscure…

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Escaping Oxford

This started as a guide to places to visit from Oxford; some typical tourist attractions, some less so. It’s now just a place for me to put whatever I want to on the web. Updates on Sundays.

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