Sion Brook's views on Oxford.
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Travel writing Sion Brook's views on Oxford There are certain things that I believe you have to be British to fully understand and appreciate: - Red telephone boxes, dull weather, only fools and horses, marmite, David Brent's dance in "The Office", sand castles, B+B's, Fry-ups, David Dickinson's orange face, the queen, driving on the left, tea. Not that I'm saying these things are boring or misguided, merely that you'd have to be British to fully appreciate their full value and appeal and into this category, I believe Oxford can be tentatively inserted. I have to admit to having a soft spot for Oxford, it's the only city in the whole of Britain, apart from perhaps Cambridge that has that intellectual, scholarly and (because of its ancient architecture) a "welcome to the 1800's sort of air". Of course it is all very self indulgent, with its respectful 800 hundred-year-old university, all...


