pop_54
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Hi
I live just outside Oxford city, Oxford looks beautiful from the high ground just as you approach the place.
The Dreaming spires of the colleges and university and the stonework of all the surrounding buildings gleams in the sun, the place looks just like the picture on the postcards.
Then you reach the place and it's a s**t hole, the spires are still there but hidden by crap designed modern structures some idiot allowed corporate organisations to throw up willy nilly.
All a bit different from when Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings here.
The streets are paved with chewing gum and litter discarded by the thousands of visitors each day, I think they bring it from where ever to chuck it down or spit it out in Oxford.
You are barged out of the way on the pavement by gangs of strange speaking visitors with no idea of manners or polite behaviour as they rush round clicking away with their camera's as if they own the place just because they paid to get there.
The only saving grace for me is that I don't have to live in the place, just work there occasionally.
My little bit of England, Abingdon, sits on the river Thames 8 miles from Oxford and we are still surrounded by country side and rolling hills, miles of riverside footpaths and loads of riverside pubs for a break from the strain of walking.
Yes Mathgirl Ireland is something else isn't it, we have friends with a holiday cottage in the south, Donegal, we have been a couple of times, beautiful beyond description waking up to the fresh air and miles of nothingness, just the rugged coast and mountains around.
As you say lovely people as well, so friendly and laid back, but yes beware the Irish road system if you don't have a 4 x 4 or tank. They all drive on whatever side of the road they feel like on any given day I think.
Must make a note to visit New Zealand one day as well before I pop my cloggs, I do have a brother there somewhere he went over in the 1950's and we haven't seen him since he writes about once every 5 yrs or so though so he's still about somewhere.
pops............
I live just outside Oxford city, Oxford looks beautiful from the high ground just as you approach the place.
The Dreaming spires of the colleges and university and the stonework of all the surrounding buildings gleams in the sun, the place looks just like the picture on the postcards.
Then you reach the place and it's a s**t hole, the spires are still there but hidden by crap designed modern structures some idiot allowed corporate organisations to throw up willy nilly.
All a bit different from when Tolkien wrote Lord of the Rings here.
The streets are paved with chewing gum and litter discarded by the thousands of visitors each day, I think they bring it from where ever to chuck it down or spit it out in Oxford.
You are barged out of the way on the pavement by gangs of strange speaking visitors with no idea of manners or polite behaviour as they rush round clicking away with their camera's as if they own the place just because they paid to get there.
The only saving grace for me is that I don't have to live in the place, just work there occasionally.
My little bit of England, Abingdon, sits on the river Thames 8 miles from Oxford and we are still surrounded by country side and rolling hills, miles of riverside footpaths and loads of riverside pubs for a break from the strain of walking.
Yes Mathgirl Ireland is something else isn't it, we have friends with a holiday cottage in the south, Donegal, we have been a couple of times, beautiful beyond description waking up to the fresh air and miles of nothingness, just the rugged coast and mountains around.
As you say lovely people as well, so friendly and laid back, but yes beware the Irish road system if you don't have a 4 x 4 or tank. They all drive on whatever side of the road they feel like on any given day I think.
Must make a note to visit New Zealand one day as well before I pop my cloggs, I do have a brother there somewhere he went over in the 1950's and we haven't seen him since he writes about once every 5 yrs or so though so he's still about somewhere.
pops............
