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by Tom Johansmeyer (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
May 22nd, 2010 at 8:00AM: You may not have that look that Hollywood craves, but you still want to get close to the action, right? You want to touch the greatness that comes with being splashed across screens from coast to coast. Thanks to the latest concept from luxury travel company Abercrombie & Kent, you don't need talent. The latest "cinema-cation" packages send you to the locations where some of the hottest movies ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Apr 4th, 2010 at 3:00PM: Who says the British can't cook?
Every Sunday all across this green and pleasant land pubs serve up a fine roast. The Sunday roast is an old tradition here. It generally includes chicken, beef, pork, or lamb, along with vegetables, potatoes, and Yorkshire pudding, all washed down with a pint or two of real ale. Some pubs even serve vegetarian roasts.
The quality of the pub roast varies ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Nov 7th, 2009 at 9:00AM: The long wait is finally over for the grand reopening of Oxford's Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology. After being partially or completely closed for the past three years, the museum's vast collection is finally open to the public again, with twice the exhibition space it once had. The Ashmolean is the oldest public museum in the world, having opened in 1683, and while there have been a lot of ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Oct 30th, 2009 at 4:30PM:
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Pubs are a cornerstone of English life. Most English people go to them and many are regulars at their "local." Because of this, pubs are a great way to meet and learn about the English. Even if you don't drink, go ahead and order a juice and soak up the atmosphere. I've ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Aug 12th, 2009 at 11:30AM: If you're like me, you went to a state university. The education may have been good, but your student union looked like a shopping mall and your dorm resembled a Soviet prison. Here's a chance to relive the youth you never had by studying at one of the world's greatest and most beautiful universities.
Recently I checked out out two summer school options at two historic colleges at Oxford ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Aug 9th, 2009 at 2:30PM: I've written about the Thames Path in an earlier post, but I recently discovered an even better stretch of that river trail that starts at a beautiful medieval abbey. So of course you folks get to enjoy the view without having to do the footwork. Aren't I nice to you? Like all my hikes so far, this is an easy day trip from Oxford or London.
Dorchester Abbey is in the little village of ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Jul 14th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Everyone knows about Stonehenge, England's most famous ancient monument, but did you know that there are nearly a thousand similar stone circles in the United Kingdom? Some are almost as big as Stonehenge, and all are steeped in folklore and legend.
A favorite of mine are the Rollright Stones, which you can get to as an easy day trip from Oxford or London. They're near Chipping Norton, a ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Jun 17th, 2009 at 11:00AM: Yesterday I reviewed Michael McCay's Hidden Treasures of England, a book filled with wonderful places that most people miss. Here's one McCay missed.
Not far from the popular destination of Oxford is the little hamlet of Binsey and its historic St. Margaret's Church.
St. Margaret's is reputedly founded on the spot where St. Frideswide (pictured here) built an oratory in the seventh century. The ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (2 years ago)
Jun 5th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Spring has sprung, and while I have a reputation as a museum junkie, I love to be outside too. Over the next few months I'll be bringing you lots of guides to hiking in England, which in good weather has the most beautiful countryside in the world.
Today I'll tell you about an easy, scenic, seven-mile hike from historic Oxford along the Thames to the little town of Abingdon. It forms part of the ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
May 21st, 2009 at 4:30PM:
Oxford's famous Pitt Rivers Museum has reopened this month after more than a year of remodeling.
The famous Victorian displays, a massive collection of diverse anthropological objects in a large gallery and two upper floors, have remained untouched, preserving an almost unique set of displays dating back more than a century.
One of the most popular cases is the one involving death rituals, ...
by Sean McLachlan (RSS feed) (3 years ago)
May 15th, 2009 at 11:30AM: Let's face it--most guidebooks are boring. Sure, they're informative, but they either read like a postgraduate thesis (Blue Guides) or are filled with snotty, uninformed opinions (take your pick)
The Cheeky Guides come as a breath of fresh air, or rather a gust of lager-laden belches from some local lush leaning against the bar at a seedy pub. These guides to Oxford and Brighton, two of England's ...
by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (4 years ago)
Jul 25th, 2007 at 7:10PM:
It appears that the flood is spreading closer to London. Here is a map of the currently affected areas. Today, some 250 people were evacuated from Oxford.
Friends in the UK tell me that the weather in London has been better in the last few days, so hopefully the Thames will remain tame. Although London has some of the most sophisticated flood wall system in the world, let's hope they don't have ...
by Iva Skoch (RSS feed) (5 years ago)
Jan 18th, 2007 at 8:22AM: Feeling trapped in your day-to-day life? How about a visit to the house of pain? The big house? The Malmaison Oxford is a former prison which has been converted into a luxury hotel.
This building served as a prison for 125 years before being shuttered in 1996 and converted into a boutique hotel by the London-based chain, Malmaison (which takes its name--literally, "bad house"--from Napoleon's ...
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