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Another entry finally taken out of point form nearly two years after the fact...

On Tuesday, we went to Oxford. I was stupid that morning and misunderstood a) when others were going to take showers, and b) that

soubrette was saying we had to get to the bus terminal and not just the bus stop... so I caused us to miss the 10:15 bus. We (

soubrette,

plotinus, and I) caught the next bus, met up with

slovakia in Oxford and made it to the Mongolian Wok just before they closed the doors. Once I got the hang of the chopsticks, it was a delicious meal.

Then we started to have a bit of a look around town.

slovakia and

soubrette shopped at Lush; neither of us remaining two were particularly interested in that so we stood outside and gazed longingly up and down the street. [I have the words "spontaneous seance in Cornmarket Street" written in my notes here but no idea what they mean any more. Pity.] We took the cheesy tourist bus and the nice tour guide "Oooh!"-ed at the fact that there were Cambridge folks visiting Oxford. Further daft photos were taken of people lying on the floor of the roof of the bus.

Then to a charming ice cream shop, where

soubrette was delighted to run into James (Cupes).

plotinus and I opted out of a pub visit to take a walk around and see the colleges and assorted interesting buildings before daylight was completely gone. I dropped my zoom lens while juggling equipment before taking a photo of Magdalen College and (unluckily) dented it but (luckily) didn't smash it to smithereens.

Following quite a pleasant restaurant dinner at which I made a fool of myself by misidentifying the chords in the song playing on the radio (doh!), we had rather (*cough*) an unpleasant coach ride back due to the lack of access to washroom facilities. Moods were considerably more relaxed once we'd gotten to use the Sidney loos.

Here is

soubrette's entry about the day.