Oxford Tips & articles

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  1. Old school: Europe’s historic college towns

    08 February 2011

    Ah, those halcyon student days. Picture cafes buzzing far past midnight with wine-fueled debates on the nature of love and...

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  2. The Oxford versus Cambridge Gloat Race

    25 August 2010

    So good they named it once: Oxbridge. In many people’s minds England’s two most venerable university cities are interchangeable, or...

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  3. Following the Thames: a source-to-mouth guide

    24 August 2010

    It is 58 million years old and 346km long. It has 80 islands, 45 locks and more than 200 rowing...

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  4. In Great Britain this summer? Pack your trunks

    25 June 2010

    There’s a seemingly never-ending procession of adrenalin sports aimed at travellers. Bungy jumping, zip-wiring, kite-surfing – if you’ve got the...

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  5. 10 places that don’t exist (but should)

    05 January 2010

    We’ve all read a book or watched a movie and wished the places it transported us to were real. ...

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  6. Lost and found in Oxfordshire

    19 October 2009

    Travelling nanny Elissa O’Malley learns that cash and muddy fields don’t mix.A couple of years ago I was working as...

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