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Oxford
A Missing Tortoise, Fifty-Seven Urine Samples and Oxford’s Ancient College Feud
Jul 30, 2026 • 36 min read
Seven years after my first visit, I returned to discover what Oxford keeps behind its gates Had apparition been allowed inside Hogwarts, I could have travelled directly from the Gloucester Cathedral cloister where Mrs Norris was found petrified to the hospital wing in Oxford’s Divinity School. Unfortunately, it was not. So I had to take a train.
Paris
From Mozart to Moulin Rouge: 40 Hours in Paris
Jul 17, 2026 • 24 min read
Two hotels, two stages and one unapologetically expensive escape Technically, this story is about forty hours in Paris. Spiritually, it began with a brioche in Strasbourg. I had flown into Paris the previous day, only to leave it almost immediately by train. I had never visited Strasbourg, and late November seemed like a reasonable time to correc