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iSPY Look Out…
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Look out in Oxford
Magdalen College will mark your departure from or entry to Oxford City centre as you cross the River Cherwell over Magdalen Bridge. Don’t miss the wonderful collection of carvings on the wall facing the High Street including the head and shoulders of a bishop (more…)
Apr
1
Quirky, bohemian Jericho is one of the most beautiful parts of Oxford. Drunken stone houses lean together behind black iron railings dotted with red flowers, boutique shops and cosy cafes line the streets, and the canal snakes through the centre. An early evening stroll from the Gloucester Green (more…)
Apr
1
Victoria Boho
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Did you know that a small corner of Victoria is actually more real Boho than Soho? Where Upper Tachbrook Street takes off at a wonky angle from the Queen Mum Sports Centre off the Vauxhall Bridge Road lives a trio of shops well worth rooting out. (more…)
Apr
1
A Cheap Night Out in London
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It is a Wednesday evening, and I am at the end of my web-based quest to find a venue in which to live out the distant dream of ‘a cheap night out - in London’ (the dash to give extra resonance to the final two damning words.) London, where the streets are paved with gold. (more…)
Jan
1
Pullman’s Oxford
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Oxford is a literary nomad, appearing reconfigured in literature again and again. A case in point is St Barnabas in Jericho: it caught the eye of Waugh, Betjeman, Hardy (Jude watched the church’s cross sway) and, more cheerfully and murderously, it cropped up in Inspector Morse. (more…)
Jan
1
iSPY Look Out!
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iSPY…in London
As you pass Marble Arch and Oxford Street’s shopping thousands it’s sobering to think the area once thronged with people for a very different reason. Until 1783 this was the site of London’s public executions at the infamous Tyburn Tree. (more…)
Jan
1
A Cheap Day Out in Oxford
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Oxford is the city of the dreaming spires, the ancient seat of one of the oldest universities in the world, and the magical home of Lyra in the chronicles of the Dark Materials. Like falling down a rabbit hole, an enchanted day out in a city brimming with intrigue, beauty and history doesn’t have to cost a fortune. (more…)
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