An Oxford month. Haven't been able to say that recently.
Reporting Days: 31
Location: Mostly Oxford
Distance Walked: 252 km
Distance Driven: 16 km (yes, really)
Photographs Taken: Hundreds. Mostly parks and pathways around Oxford.
Austria & Switzerland
The first few days of the month found us still travelling, finding our way slowly back to the UK from northern Italy. That meant time in both Austria (in the Stubai Valley and in Innsbruck) and in Switzerland (in Zurich), and very briefly in Paris.
The good weather of last month didn't last and we had a few very wet low-level walks before we left Austria.
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| Innsbruck - under low clouds |
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| Stubai Valley - under low clouds |
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| Zurich - under blue skies |
Oxford
One of the downsides of spending several months away from Oxford is the backlog of appointments that drop into the diary - in my case mostly NHS appointments. And life being what it is, one appointment seems to lead to more appointments, and suddenly every day gets booked up.
I did, however, still manage to get a walk every day (sometimes just loops of Bury Knowle Park), and it was (according to the photographs) sunny for part of at least a few of the days, although that's not how I recall it.
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| Headington Hill Park, Oxford |
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| The Weir at Parson's Pleasure, Oxford |
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| River Cherwell at the Oxford Botanics |
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| River Cherwell where it joins the River Thames |
London
Having spent a few weeks in Oxford, it was good to find the excuse for a wee city break - to attend an evening lecture at the RGS (something I said I would do more often post retirement) then to find my way to UCL for the first of several (voluntary!) MRI scans.
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| UCL, Queen Square, London |
Next month: North.