Category: Blog posts
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London museums: avoiding the crowds, part II
Last week I told you about three museums I visited dotted around London, and where to go to get away from the hordes of tourists (let’s pretend for the moment that I wasn’t also…
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London museums: avoiding the crowds, part I
I have a theory. This, you might think, would be good news for my degree, but unfortunately for me (and possibly for you too) it relates rather more to this blog. You see, I’ve…
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Reading
This was meant to be a post about Banbury, Oxfordshire’s second town and a great moderately-quaint place to go from Oxford, that you can reach cheaply and quickly. But the trains weren’t playing ball,…
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Weatherfield
I’m a northerner, so eventually I had to make a day trip up north. The trouble is that Oxford is in the south, of course, and there aren’t many places that are accessible from…
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London: Design Museum, Sir John Soane Museum
Hmm, so I’m in two minds about this post. I’m trying here to encourage people to leave Oxford, but it’s already true that if we Oxonians leave Oxford for somewhere other than our hometowns,…
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Bath
“Finally,” you cry, “he’s written about an actual tourist destination. Somewhere we might actually want to go. Maybe he’ll write about the Roman baths, I’ve heard they’re interesting.” Except, um, no. Unfortunately, the Roman…
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Iffley
Yes, don’t worry, you’re still reading Escaping Oxford. And yes, I know Iffley is in Oxford. However, until 1972 Oxford didn’t include Cowley and Iffley, so just pretend that you’re back in the sixties and…
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Coventry
This week is the opposite of last week: my previous day trip plans got cancelled, so now you get to read a defence of Coventry. And now I’ve lost 90% of the people who…
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Derby
I wasn’t intending to go anywhere this weekend so I was all ready for my first archive post. As it happened, I ended up in Derby, so I thought I’d blog about that instead.…
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Moreton-in-Marsh and Evesham
I’ve been in Oxford for five-and-a-half years now, and for some reason I’ve rarely thought of going down the Cotswold line. Which is a shame, because it’s a really pretty journey through an Area…