Category: Blog posts
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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…
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London: Coventry Street, and why I hate it
I’m on holiday this week, so I can’t produce my usual blog post. As such, this one’s being written at (currently) half past midnight on Tuesday morning in advance of my going away, so…
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Airedale
Okay, first thing’s first—a regular reader (apparently I have those? Who knew) would like me to issue a correction. Two weeks ago I wrote about Calderdale, and in my section on Halifax I neglected,…
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Haworth
It’s been a while since last I chose To write a post a different way, So gone, this week, is turgid prose: ’Tis poetry you’ll read today. Date of trip: Saturday 6th July 2018 Journey…
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Calderdale
Yeah, so the next few weeks’ posts are not viable day trips from Oxford, sorry. But, as you might hope from someone who writes a blog about getting out of Oxford, I’m spending a…
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Manchester: Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Art Gallery
We now move away from London, finally, to t’north. Specifically to Manchester, which I know I denigrated in a previous post, but that was advocating visiting a fictional place instead, which you can’t do.…
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London Transport Museum and related wanderings
I’m sorry. I’m sorry this is yet another bloody post about central London, when I was supposed to be writing about all sorts of places you could visit from Oxford. I’m sorry that, as you can…