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When I got off the plane at Marrakesh Menara Airport, it was a sensory overload. People yelling from all directions, every car communicating with honks of aggravation, and pops of bright colour around every corner. I got in the airport transfer feeling sceptical at best about spending the next week here. However, after a week […]
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The British railways have come to be one of the most blatantly obvious examples of where privatisation has failed. Commuters and tax payers are being ripped off by dividend collectors, while services deteriorate, prices climb much faster than wages, and incompetent Conservative ministers like Chris Grayling fumble around a problem they have no desire to […]
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This summer, me and 5 of my friends went on the most stereotypically coming-of-age holiday possible. Comprised of 3 film students, a ballet dancer and two Oxford biologists (yay!), we had the makings of a semi-functional group of 3 couples that could just about bear to live in each other’s pockets for two weeks straight. […]
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Image Credit: Lucie Blackman Trust When I became Features Editor at the beginning of December, my first thought was ‘Great! I can write a travel piece on New Zealand’. On the 2nd of December I set off from Newcastle for Auckland, a two day journey. When I left the UK, Grace had already been murdered; […]
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All images by Alex Homer. Description: a view of the Royal Albert Dock, Liverpool. Date of trip: Tuesday 14th and Wednesday 15th August 2018 Journey time: approx. 3h40–4h (usually two trains, with the interchange station depending on the time and day of travel) Fare: £49 (Off-Peak, with 16–25 Railcard) The distance is probably the main […]
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Image Credit: Alex Homer Date of trip: Monday 24th September 2018 Journey time: approx. 3h30 Fare: £68.70 (Off-Peak, with 16–25 Railcard. It’s almost certainly possible to get this cheaper by splitting your ticket—I think the cheapest way is to split at Leamington Spa, Derby and Sheffield, but I haven’t checked this. In fact, one of the […]
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Image credit: Evalena Labayen. From an avid hiking enthusiast, I want everyone to know that the Andes Mountains in Peru are no small feat to climb. In fact, they’re riddled with four-hour climbs up steep, shaky terrain at an altitude so high that I almost passed out climbing up to my bunk bed in the […]
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Image credit: Alex Homer. Description: Slough bus station. Ever since I read my favourite poet John Betjeman’s verse entitled “Slough”, I’ve wanted to visit the town to see if it was really as beautiful as he made it sound. After all, he clearly didn’t call it “the mess they call a town” for nothing. So […]
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My experience of seasonal work was a roller coaster. I spent four and a half months over the winter holidays, until May, working as a costumer for a holiday club, starting in Opio, in the south of France, for training, and quickly moving on to Val Thorens, in the Alps. Initially, I found it hard […]
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Oxford, and LMH in particular, host many interesting events but I must say that I’ve never attended an event in Oxford like this Anhui tourism event at LMH. Having cycled through countless roadsuntil I thought I must now be in Cambridge, I eventually arrived at LMH and followed signs to reach Talbot Hall. I suppose […]
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Image Credit: Alex Homer. Description: Coventry Cathedral. I like taking day trips to escape the massive, massive bubble that is Oxford. This doesn’t surprise people, but what does is when I told them I went – instead of to Bath, or London, or Worcester – to Coventry instead. But there’s no stopping me – and here’s […]
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Travel is a beautiful distorting mirror, one in which we can look back at ourselves and at different places, just like in books. Yet, this becomes even more spine-tingling when done through the lens of another age, through another’s eyes – this was my impression when I entered the world of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage by […]
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#Oxfess17769: “I get so annoyed at exchange students … coming here for a term or 2 … it honestly seems like you’re not here on merit, but overprivileged and here with your parents’ money to blow on a fun time traveling Europe.” I took the liberty of fixing some punctuation errors in this high-achieving student’s message. But, […]
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As the Hilary term drew to a close, I impatiently waited for the day when my vacation would really begin—with a trip to Amsterdam. I spent hours arguing with my travel companion over what would be the best way to head over to the Netherlands, carrying onto Germany afterwards. Do we drive? Do we fly? […]
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It is rumoured that one might find a Gregg’s sausage roll in the great beyond, past the Sainsbury’s by Magdalen bridge and up a vast hill. Headington is a destination largely unknown by the student population at Oxford University—unless they’ve made a trip to the JR hospital for medical studies or after a display of […]
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This one’s for the culture vultures. With a blend of creativity and culture, the combination of an art festival with a trip abroad is a recipe for a truly inspirational holiday for both a travel and art-lover. From the ‘Olympics of the art world’, to paintings in Irish pubs, here are three of the best […]
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Looking for a way to keep the wanderlust at bay over exam term? Travel photography has long been one of the best-loved ways both of documenting and of experiencing the world, and these photographers’ Instagram accounts manage to capture the beauty, colour, and excitement of travel in each perfectly-composed square. From frozen wastelands to vibrant […]
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As someone who is rather well travelled, I used to frequently wonder why people would prefer to go travelling alone. The difference between ‘a tourist’ and ‘a traveller’ is something that had never occurred to me. What I did not realise is that these two are almost like different ends of a spectrum, and I’m […]
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When I was thinking about my upcoming trip to India, I thought I would eat curry all the time. Saag aloo, chana masala, brinjal bhaji, kodo saag… I love my veggie curries. So when I got to India and lost my appetite for curry, I was disconcerted. Why did my taste buds suddenly betray me? […]
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