Author: Alex
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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…
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Leeds
ARGH @£$$(_@ I haven’t written a blog post yet. And it’s 9pm. I’m getting worse at this. Luckily the city I was going to write about is Leeds, so I have time to come…
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Slough
Ever since I read my favourite poet John Betjeman’s verse entitled “Slough”, I’ve wanted to visit the town to see if it was really as beautiful as he made it sound. After all, he…
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Blog break: an acrostic apology
I’m sorry that this week there’s not The usual post today. What’s happened, simply: I forgot, And so instead I’ll tell you what Shall come, quite soon, your way. When, once, I wrote of…
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London: a walk
So this week’s post is a bit weird, because it’s a fairly literal description of a walk. This was a walk I took when introducing a friend to London who’d never been before, and…
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Windsor and Eton
“Ah, 3:15pm. I’ve got a couple of hours before Costa closes, just time to go in and get a coffee and read for a bit. Excellent. Glad I don’t have to get my laptop…
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London: Wallace Collection, London Mithraeum
These museums don’t have very much to do with each other. But they’re both in London, and they’re both free, and they’re both slightly more obscure than your average museum. I didn’t even visit…
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Liverpool
So I guess it won’t be long until the end of this blog, because I will be leaving Oxford fairly soon. But don’t think it’s over just yet—in fact, it’s still getting better. So…