Good news: I was able to transfer my flight credit for a trip to PARIS the first weekend of December! Not only will I be spending time in one of my favorite cities around my favorite time of year (Christmas, DUH), but that particular weekend all of the museums are free! I can't imagine a better trip. For this reason, my song of the week is:
She's so sassy I love it...modern day Janis Joplin, no? Anyways, since I don't have much to report on in regards to travel, I thought I'd spend some time talking about the pub crawl me and the girls organized last Thursday. We managed to make it to 5 pubs: Chequers, The Wheat Sheaf, Old Tom, Turf Tavern, and King's Arms...a new record! We all a goal to make it to every pub in Oxford...mainly because we all have a poster that has drawings of all the pubs in Oxford that you're supposed to color in when you visit them. I mean, how can we possibly leave here after 4 months and NOT make it to every single one??
Out of the ones I've visited so far, Turf Tavern is my favorite. It's extremely difficult to find, hidden within tiny alleyways and passages one would normally walk by without even thinking twice. The interior is cozy yet pretty sizeable, and they have my favorite cider on draft: Old Rosie. It's rather hard to come by; only a few pubs in Oxford have it. I half like it because the name reminds me of my brother's beloved dog and the other half is because it's so potent (nearly 9%) that I don't have to spend pounds and pounds on other drinks. And it doesn't taste half bad either.
Hate to say it, but don't think I'll ever be visiting the Wheat Sheaf again. Very questionable wall decoration:
Who names these pubs anyways? What IS a wheat sheaf? New project for this week: decide on the name of my pub. Contenders: My Left Shoe, The Bendy Straw, The Suckling Pig, Crap I Found Under My Bed...
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