Jericho

Today, I FINALLY got some amazing Indian food. A group of us went to a buffet at a ritzy Indian restaurant...on Sundays the place has an all-you-can-eat for ten pounds deal (really expensive in dollars...I can't think about it, b/c having good Indian food was one of my top-ten things to do here!). We sat by the Thames and watched people punt by as we literally stuffed our faces with amazing food. I still haven't eaten and it's 8 at night!

Post-lunch I definitely needed to walk some of the naan off, so I walked up to Jericho, a 'borough' of Oxford full of both thrift stores and expensive houses.

Katherine (Canadian in the program) and I wandered up a river path to try and get to Jericho and ran into a neighborhood of houseboats. Some pretty good pictures followed...


The path starts by Rosie O'Grady's...the token Irish pub that every town in the world has. (Honestly, I think I even saw an Irish pub in India)

Dramatic willow tree


Too bad for this guy....

AH! And this, THIS, is my future home... It's kind of hard to see in this picture, but the window looks like a sun... A nice touch. I think it might need a BIT of work, but WOW, can you imagine? Living on an old houseboat in Oxford? C'est la vie!

Katherine and I ran into this old graveyard in Jericho..


We heard Big Band music playing on an old radio and started freaking out...some ghost listening to good music or something. Turns out, some of the many homeless people in Oxford have pitched tents in the graveyard.

New building, oooolllldddd graveyard


Oxford University Press building!

It was a really great day... the sun was actually out for the entire day, at times it felt HOT, which was nice. Tomorrow I'm back to work, reading about how serious climate change actually is.

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