Author: Alex
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Doncaster
It’s been a while since I last blogged on here, and I’m aware that there is something counterintuitive about choosing to make another post on my travel blog at a time when a lot…
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Hiatus part V: the bug
The big, scary day is approaching, and you’re scared. There have been a lot of stories in the newspapers, about food running out in supermarkets, medicines being unavailable, and the NHS collapsing under the…
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Hiatus part III: Oxfordshire bus numbers
Thrilling title, I know. So this was a Twitter thread I put out on Tuesday, and someone said to me “you could make that into a blog post”. And I’m on hiatus, so here…
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An announcement
Hey! So, I have an announcement to make. This announcement is partly a placeholder for the fact that I meant to write something this week, but never quite managed to (the time when I…
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London: the last piece
This is yet another post inspired by Diamond Geezer. On 19th January, the eponymous geezer blogged about the Tube Map jigsaw he’d got for Christmas. I’ve also done that jigsaw, three times, encountering the…
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Blog break: WikiHow to escape Oxford
Well, I have found myself without anywhere to write about. I did go to Banbury yesterday, and, as you may remember, my last trip there was a fairly unmitigated disaster. I would tell you…
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London: a random Tube journey, part IV
A couple of weeks ago, I woke up to an unexpectedly empty day, my previous plans having been rearranged. I awoke from a dream, in which I’d dreamt that I was continuing my random…
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Leamington
Have you any friends who go, or went, to the University of Warwick? If so, then there’s a pretty good chance you know a current or former resident of Leamington, because the University of…
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London: City and Southwark
The tour of Charing Cross Tube station only lasted about an hour and a quarter. With a few hours to kill in London after lunch, we had to find something else to do. You’ll…
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London: Charing Cross tube station
I am so excited to write this one. So so so excited. Literally, this is a whole post about a Tube station. I’ll try and make it interesting for the rest of you too.…