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York was 2 nights in a very comfortable and nicely decorated, but very small (VCANDBVS) room at the Water’s Edge. Julie turned out to be a very pretty brown-eyed blond who offered to do our laundry for L5 a bag. Well, we didn’t stuff the bags as full as we should have and [...]

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On the York Train, Sept 13th, 2003
Not long after this (writing the last entry), we arrived at Oxford station and grabbed a cab to our “private hotel,” the Falcon. This was basic accomodation for “only” L70 including breakfast — it was 2 converted townhouses, very mazelike, with a number of inconveniently placed firedoors. [...]

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Sept. 12, 2003 Stow-on-the-Wold
Wow! Just two days in the Cotswolds and we’re already planning a return trip.
We arrived by train in Moreton-in-Marsh and immediately saw one of the oldest curfew towers (a bell was rung to warn residents to cover their fires) in the country.

We had to drag the rolly-pollies to [...]

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September 10th, 2003
Today we head out from London and got the Cotswolds for 2 days, then Oxford for a day, then York. Yesterday was spent mostly lazing around (tourism is hard work) and then we sat at the British Tourist Authority and then the Scottish Tourist Board to make B&B/hotel reservations. I hadn’t [...]

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Right. Well. We’re on vacation.
Yesterday was a long day of dedicated tourism, capped off with an enthusiastic consumption of ale and wine. All in all, much fun.
It started with our setting out all fresh and peppy for the Tower of London. We had vouchers that needed to be exchanged for the [...]

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