I enjoy flights - the small meals and on board entertainment :) I watched the movie Focus with Will Smith. There were lots of people coughing around us, so Athol was bound to get sick (as he always does on flights!).
We arrived in London at 7am then caught the National Express at Terminal 2 to Oxford (100min trip). We noticed "parking pods" driving by on separate in-the-air rails at the airport - quite futuristic I must say!
We finally arrived in Oxford on Wednesday 1 October 2015 around 10am at the Gloucester Green bus station. Athol went to get our flat keys from Hertford College then we caught a taxi to our new home in Summertown. It's university accommodation. It's a nice one bedroom garden flat (even though they call it a studio flat), probably about 50sqm with a huge garden! (compared to our 28sqm room at Northumberland House in London!)
The kitchen is fairly big (at least there isn't a communal kitchen like at LSE!) with all appliances needed. There is a heater in every room even the bathrooms - it must get cold here! We discovered that the "scouts" come and clean the flat every Friday - a great perk!
Summertown is a lovely suburb, for the more mature couples :) it's quiet, with shops along Banbury Road and South Parade. It's got all the shops that one needs - Tesco, Sainsburys, the Co-Op, Boots, M&S, banks, restaurants, etc. I managed to get some bedding, towels and crockery at a shop called Cargo. Still need to buy some things but this is our home for the year :)
Athol starts his MPhil degree in Political Theory at Oxford University, a dream of his!
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