I started off to go to the city library. My paper was about Oxford and all the resources I wanted to get at seemed to be in some special resource center there. However, when I got down there the city workers were on strike. Seems they didn’t get a raise and somebody else did. Libraries, [...]
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Oxford – day 11
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Oxford – day 9
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Although we had library cards I still found the Bodleian rather intimidating so I forked over the dough to do the tour. Turns out I would not have had access to this part with my card anyhow. We got to hear a little history of the building and see the backroom where Charles I had [...]
Oxford – day 8
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Next to the Pitt Rivers Museum the Natural History Museum was recommended for – if nothing else – its architecture. So I trekked out there and marveled at the number of bicycists. Bikes outnumber the cars in this part of town and most of the vehicles on the street are delivery trucks or workmen’s trucks [...]
Weekend – day 5 & 6, London
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Having been camped out in Oxford for almost a solid week I was ready to scoot off. Everyone else was going to London. Everyone else was going to ride the London Eye. I didn’t really want to pay to see the Eye. They’d looked for a hotel, but not found anything reasonable. I had not [...]
Oxford – day 5 Ashmolean, Windsor Castle
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I was still pretty frustrated that nothing opened very early and after marching all over town I ended up at the Ashmolean highly recommended as a ‘lovely’ little museum.
Just in case you plan to drop by let me tell you now – the Ashmolean is under renovation. This year it’s open about half strength, next [...]
