Blogs from Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom, Europe - page 37

Geo: 51.7523, -1.25582After a slight detour through the gardens at New Place, which happily took us through a parking lot where I could squeal over a Smart car, we walked to <a href="http://www.stratford-upon-avon.org/">Holy Trinity Church</a> to see Shakespeare's grave. The verger who was taking donations at the entrance was an adorable older man, who wanted to know where we were from, etc. He glanced this way and that, then told us that if we wanted to take a picture, we could ("Shh").  Beautiful little church -- with Bill and his family earning permanent front-row seats. As we left, Mr. Verger-man asked Sara if we'd gotten our photographs. "Yes, thank you so much." With a sly downward look, he proclaimed us "Naughty Americans." That just tickled us, and we used the phrase quite a few t... read more

Our trip down Memory Lane starts at "The Lawns" B&B in Woodstock, which served as our home base. A great little town with good restaurants and Pubs. I lived in Oxfordshire at the nearby RAF Base Upper Heyford (1972-1974) with the US Air Force. Also worked as a dining room waiter at the Weston Manor Hotel (1974) in the village of Weston-on-the-Green near Bicester. ... read more

Today is the 26th July 2003, and we are back in Oxford!:o( Haven't posted for a while as we changed our plans at the last minute and have been too occupied with sorting out the next stage of our travels. So ... we decided to leave Denmark a week earlier than planned because the strawberries had started to get a bit thin on the ground and there were over 50 people on the farm meaning that the extra work was a bit thin too because so many people wanted to do it. We run out of money quicker than we thought, and didn’t earn as much as we thought we would either, but never mind! We got back to the UK on 5th July and had plans to go to Tours in the North of France, ... read more

Oxford is a cute college town, with plenty of colleges to go around. More than colleges is the number of pubs, most of which are quite old, like from the 16 and 1700's. Lots of stone walls. this is a real walking town once you get a map. I've checked out the Botanical Gardens, Carafax Tower, Christ Church College (lots of harry potter fans there, as some parts of the movies were filmed there) the canal walk and 2 markets. My tevas are getting real milage. Yesterday i snuck into Rhodes House Library for a while and parused my way throught the Pacific Section for 3 hours while it rained. That library is so well taken care of! I may try to get back in tomorow to finish reading about the pacific anti-nuclear treaty and the ... read more

We've decided to go travelling after many many months of indecisions ... bugger it, only once in a life time opportunity etc etc ... and we really need to have some time away from things, see if what we really want in life is real, dn't know how long we'll be, not making any definite plans! Today is 9th May 2003 and we received all our travel gear this morning, woooooo it' so kool! Got our backpaks, sleeping bags, tent, waterproofs, travel eating utensils, some walking shoes, travel first aid kit, travel water filter, loads of stuff. Only got to get a couple of small things like a solar powered battery recharger/power unit, which obviously uses solar power to charge our rechargable batteries, but it also doubles up as a power point for any electrical stuff ... read more

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 ... read more