Day 5 - just cruising, half-pint crawling | |
2022-10-17 - TZ: Europe/London | |
Quick note, this was after first night that I didn’t take | |
melatonin to help me sleep. Was definitely a bit harder to get | |
to sleep but according to my watch I did fine | |
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Woke up, lazed around for a while. It’s so nice just being | |
with these people, you know? | |
Boat went north, touched the Cherwell, went back south again. | |
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Becca and Cath hard-stopped the boat at one point because they | |
saw a kingfisher. <someone got a photo, maybe add it here>. If | |
they are rare, they weren’t today. I think between us we saw | |
3 in total. | |
We moored in good time, 15 mins cruise from the boatyard, close | |
to The Anchor pub, which was intended spot for last dinner. I | |
believe we had pre-dinner G&Ts. | |
The Anchor had:- | |
* Table tennis table. Hard paddles, heavy balls, basically a | |
different game. | |
* Japanese street food truck. I had curry udon w/ tofu. Richard | |
chatted to the Japanese-native truck denizens, since he’d | |
been there a few times. | |
* Wadworth beer (6X was off, I had Horizon) | |
* Bit of a swanky gastropubby vibe. Richard had an “autumn | |
sour”, a sloe gin, lemon juice, elderflower thing w/ egg white | |
for texture as you do. We were there as the barman refined the | |
recipe, and chatted w/ him about it. | |
Becca left us after dinner, driving home for work Tuesday. | |
The rest of us decided to go to: The Lamb and Flag, G&Ds, and | |
the Turf. Half pint in both pubs for me. | |
The Lamb and Flag has been recently neutered. No posters about | |
weird student shit on the walls, half the rooms that were little | |
nooks gone, no Betty Stoggs. But there was a familiar post to | |
hang on to. Richard found a photo of me clinging to it while | |
being given a wedgie on my 24th birthday. <photo plz>. | |
In general Oxford felt pretty quiet. A lot of places closed. (It | |
was a Monday night, but the students were most definitely | |
around.) weird. Guess we should try a Friday. | |
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