The Oxford Canal

When I was 18 years old, I went on a long boat voyage with some friends. We sailed along the Oxford Canal from Cropredy to Banbury in a barge named Bilbo. We never got as far as Oxford, the canal's terminus. The Oxford Canal runs along the far side of Worcester College's grounds and it's very pleasant to walk along the tow path to get somewhere, rather than along the busy streets. We strolled along the tow path this afternoon, saw a moorhen and her baby, some barges moored on the banks, almost got run over by an old man furiously pedaling and ringing his bicycle bell, got intimate glimpses into the back yards of houses that back right onto the canal and worked up an appetite for another College dinner.

Our destination was St. Sepulchre's Cemetery which was opened in 1850, then on the outskirts of Oxford, as a cholera cemetery.

We stopped in a thrift store on the way home and picked up a couple of big mugs for a better tea drinking experience, and some paperback books. The latter can be donated to the Georgia Tech Oxford program's yard sale when we leave. It was held this evening before dinner, and we bought a box of laundry detergent ( only a few scoops short of a full box) and a barely used pop up laundry hamper. We passed on the ice skates and electric drill...
Proceeds go towards buying dvds for the program's library, and also supply cheap "stuff" for the students and faculty.

Dinner tonight, although I'd be hard pressed to call a meal at 5:30pm"dinner", in the Great Hall with all the students who were too late to request the 6:30pm tickets.

Menu:
salad
chicken Italian style
pasta
courgettes (as zucchini are known here)
cheesecake
coffee in the cloisters