Category: Blog posts
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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…
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Chipping Norton
I promised this week I wouldn’t write about London, and so here I am not writing about London. (Although I have still managed to use the word “London” two—er, three—times in the first two…
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London: miscellaneous
So there isn’t really a theme to this post, it’s just “other stuff we did in London when we saw Hamilton”. Also I’m very aware that I was intending this blog to be proving the…
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London: Regent’s Park and Primrose Hill
On Tuesday I went to see Hamilton, which I’d highly recommend (if you haven’t listened to it, shame on you). I am not a theatre blogger, so I’m not going to tell you about that, and…
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Banbury
Finally the trains were working well enough for me to make it to Banbury, the place I tried to write about the day I ended up going to Reading instead. I’ve been to Banbury I…
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Leicester
Back in December, a friend of mine—the same one who suggested the trip to the West Wycombe caves—suggested a trip to follow in the last footsteps of a king. (They have half the good…
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Blog break
This week I’m up north with my family, which means I should have made the blog post during the week, because I knew I wouldn’t have chance at the weekend. Unfortunately I didn’t have…
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London: Kew Gardens
A trip to London again, I know—and this one’s to a fairly standard tourist attraction too, the Royal Botanic Gardens in leafy Kew, so not really the sort of thing I blog about. But…