Lynmouth – Oxford, with Exeter 1998 August 5 Jane suggested I catch the early train (10:10), with Barbara, and spend a few hours in Exeter before catching the train on to Oxford . This worked very well. Exeter has a left-luggage place run by a taxi company. The train system was deemed too vulnerable to IRA bombs to keep luggage anymore. I remembered things of Exeter from my visit in 1977. It is bustling. I had lunch (a pasty) in a pub and spent the rest of the time at the Cathedral . A permit (one pound) was required for visiting. It’s worth it because there so many original things in their original places. The “Friends of Exeter” keep everything in good repair, from the choir, to the brass, to the stone. Once during my time
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