Author: Alex
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Blog break: Christmas
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
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
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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Kidlington
If you know anything about Kidlington, it might not strike you as the sort of place tourists take a trip to. After all, it feels like just another suburb of Oxford—at the end of…
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Abingdon
This week I thought I’d do a post on my travel blog about somewhere you might actually be tempted to go to. Wild, I know. (Although I do genuinely recommend taking a random Tube…
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London: a random Tube journey, part II
At the end of my last post,¹ we left me as I wandered back to Harlesden station. This was the point at which my Day Travelcard started to give up the ghost, which meant…
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London: a random tube journey, part I
On another day killing time in London, riding from Edgware Road into town on the Bakerloo, my mind drifted to a game called “The London Game” that I played as a (weird, Tube-loving) child.…
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Oxford
Dear Alex, I am a regular reader of your blog, “Escaping Oxford”. Each week, on Sunday, though disappointed by your irregular publishing time, I await your latest post eagerly. I then spend the rest…
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Bradford
I’ve been meaning to do this post for a while. See, I’ve spent a lot of time denigrating the city of Bradford,¹ when actually I think it’s a fairly nice place. (If you go…
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York
This post is going to be a bit like my Bath one, except with the same caveat I gave to my Leeds one. Perhaps I needn’t write it at all in that case: you…