Travel Blog

No longer is this a regular old Oxford blog. This is now a travel blog. If you want to learn about the ins and outs of travelling about Spain, Prague, Rome, and Amsterdam for a very short while, then read on motherfucker.

I left Oxford for Bath, and stayed there about a week. That was nice. It gave me a chance to get all my affairs in order in a very small town. And it is a very small town. The only thing you can really do there is see the baths and maybe look at some nice, old architecture. I met all of David´s abroad friends, and many of them were quite nice. Then there was David himself, and he was quite nice. I watched a lot of British television and ate delicious home-cooked meals. Not much to report there.

Then I went to London for a last few days. I saw all the traditional "London" things, Westminster, Parliament, Buckingham palace. It was all whatever. I really didn´t learn anything new by seeing them in person, especially considering it was quite shitty and rainy out. I did, however, see an interesting final London show called "Attempts on her Life". It was a series of monologues about a woman named Ann, and the whole thing was staged with a lot of audio/video elements: a large screen was lowered at the beginning of the play, and most of it was recorded as a kind of film, made on stage, in addition to being a play. They even simulated cars going by, beaches, and doctors´offices on stage using a few small set-pieces, but on the screen it looked very realistic. It was interesting, but nothing mind-blowing. Worth the 10 pounds paid for the show.

I will come back later to describe Barcelona and Valencia. Let me tell you two things right off the bat: Valencia is surprisingly great, and Barcelona was surprisingly disappointing.