Category Archives: Oxford

I’ve been reprimanded for allowing my last England post to be such a miserable let-down, when I actually loved Oxford so much. "You wrote about a ham and cheese sandwich?" my complainant asked. I may be in Hong Kong now, … Continue reading →

"Sylvia Plath or William Blake?" I asked nobody in particular."Oh, Blake for sure," offered the young Englishman beside me. "Well, I do already have T.S. Eliot," I said.No, I was not choosing classes or  browsing a bookstore. I was at … Continue reading →

Of all of Oxford’s colleges, many of which are closed to the public except at specified viewing hours, the most exclusive is All Souls. It’s so exclusive that it is even closed to Oxford students, at all hours. This I … Continue reading →

I hesitate in writing this, knowing that Ulaca will only reprimand me for not working on my thesis, but… I’m thrilled to have finally found yoga at Oxford.Not surprisingly, it was at St-Antony’s, which is full of vegetarian, yoga-doing, teetotaling, … Continue reading →

For Hong Blog, here’s the bacon shop at Oxford’s covered market, where you can get local cheeses, custom-made leather riding boots, bacon, etc. There was a chalkboard outside the butcher that said "Goat available here," but I forgot to snap … Continue reading →