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Thursday 30 May 1998
Fran and I left the Rollright Stones and headed into Oxford
for a day of culture and fun. Finding a car park was incredibly hard - why not signpost them,
hey! What an incredible idea!!! We did eventually find one and then had a near heart attack
when we found out how much it was to park in the dimly lit and extremely tight dungeon that
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| Oxford is of course a university town but instead of a single university it
has numerous "colleges", some old and famous, others less aged and renowned.
It is a place where the bicycle reigns on the road. There were hundreds of cyclists and
collections of cycles awaiting collection by their owners. No wonder, with the price and
scarcity of car parking...
I agree the world needs fewer cars. But the answer is in making public transport a realistic
and affordable option for families - not in making the motoring public an impoverished breed. |
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We took the bus tour of Oxford. It is famous for universities you know.
Have I said that already? Hmmm - more or less the only thing the bus commentary said also...
Boring... This is only my opinion of course.
But the faces of fellow passengers all lightened
whenever the commentator shut up and music came on the headphones... Even Lewis Carroll, author
of Alice in Wonderland got the merest of mentions. |
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