Hola from Dublin!

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Many many more tourist sights seen, streets wandered, accents listened to. Fed ducks in Regence Park, minded the Gap regularly, took the train and ferry up to Ireland, now in Dublin, land of Guinness and Joyce. Seriously, every other building has at least one of those words on it.

Watched The Aristocrats in a cineplex in London. If you like astounding crudity, it's the movie for you! (No violence, no nudity, unspeakable obscenity, in a documentary of a dirty joke filmed by Penn Jillette.)

Have to make my way back down through England again, and Bill keeps asking me where I want to go and see. I am spending one day looking at a castle near Holyhead, and then I have several days to get from there to London. I prefer walking city streets and seeing neat people in their natural habitats to tourist traps. Suggestions?

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Neat! I hadn't thought of Shrewsbury, but it sounds quite pleasant!

In Oxford we stayed at a tiny B&B named St. Michael's Guest House (listing says "26 St Michael's Street, Oxford, OX1 2EB. Mrs Hoskins. Tel: 01865 242101.") with 6 or 8 guest rooms and a breakfast room. It was fun to be staying right in town; the old part of the city is very dense, with narrow crooked streets that are delightful for walking down when returning to the B&B from a late dinner.

I remember a pleasant coffee shop hiding in a second-floor attic of the Covered Market (Georgina's?), the many bookstores on Broad Street, and the sign in the Eagle and Child tavern noting that it's where C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and friends used to gather and talk about writing every week. I'd recommend the view from the tower of University Church.

Hope you keep having a blast!