Bournmouth to Oxford
Monday, December 7th, 2009Leaving Cambridge I learned there was a tube strike in London, excellent…lucky I had a few hours to make my way across town to catch my bus to Bournemouth so joined in with another couple of million angry people on the bus system but managed to get there on time and jump on my uber cheap mega bus down to Bournemouth to stay with Vikki who I had done an exchange type thing with when I was at high school. 6 years on Vikki owns a house with her boyfriend Martin and has a real job, sometimes I feel a bit irresponsible! But lovely to spend a few quite days chilling around Bournemouth in a nice house with a big double bed. Bliss.
We went strawberry picking, cooked yummy food, went to the pub, watched DVD’s, ate fish and chips at the seaside and had dinner with her family who I had stayed with last time. We even manged to track down a pair of steelcap boots I needed for my upcoming job I was feeling a little bit nervous about.I was due in Oxford on the Sunday and caught a train up on Saturday to stay a night with my friend Kate’s mum and step-dad, Marianne and John, who are doing a belated O.E living in Oxford. I managed to navigate my way to their place and spend the afternoon and evening with them. Nice to see some kiwi’s again and was very welcomed into their nice house. Oxford is a cool city, while dominated by the university its really busy, lots going on, beautiful buildings of course and only an hour away from London! Not having any student guides this time I couldn’t get into any of the colleges but still nice wandering around the streets all the same.
I got in touch with my boss for my upcoming job I was still very vague about, all I had heard that we were going to Denmark on Tuesday. He said someone could come pick me up the next day which was great. I walked around a few college parks the next day and lay around in the sun waiting till I would get picked up, unfortunately though an extra lock had been put on the door of the house which I didn’t have the key for so couldn’t actually get inside to get my stuff. Luckily Marianne and John eventually came back and I got in touch with the guys from work who turned up later on that evening to pick me up and drive me back out to the base, about 20mins drive from center of Oxford. Time to start my crazy job for the summer…
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