Category: Blog posts
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Kidlington
If you know anything about Kidlington, it might not strike you as the sort of place tourists take a trip to. After all, it feels like just another suburb of Oxford—at the end of…
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Abingdon
This week I thought I’d do a post on my travel blog about somewhere you might actually be tempted to go to. Wild, I know. (Although I do genuinely recommend taking a random Tube…
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London: a random Tube journey, part II
At the end of my last post,¹ we left me as I wandered back to Harlesden station. This was the point at which my Day Travelcard started to give up the ghost, which meant…
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London: a random tube journey, part I
On another day killing time in London, riding from Edgware Road into town on the Bakerloo, my mind drifted to a game called “The London Game” that I played as a (weird, Tube-loving) child.…
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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…