| 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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