Ben Le Vay’s Eccentric Oxford – Travel advice and holiday tips featuring the best pubs and restaurants, insider secrets, stories and historical eccentricities. Also including off-the-tourist-track walks and cycle routes, quirky people, rituals and events, colleges and students, River Cherwell, punting and boat races, history and architecture.
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Is it a fish? Is it snake? Is it a crab? No, it is – believe it or not – an octopus!
Who wants to spend the night in a tiny chapel?
You think your life is hard? Try swapping places with the emperor penguin.
Anyone fancy a glass of Yukon Jack whiskey garnished with a genuine, severed human toe?
From a lawnmower shrine to walls lined with cuckoo clocks – and everything in between.
Bournemouth’s once-famous Bobby & Co department store is set to reopen at the end of July, with Verve Properties, an ethical property company, working to give the building a new leash of life. The first phase of the pupgrade project will see the opening of DROOL, the world’s first food hall devoted entirely to dogs.…
An expert’s guide to the undeniably strange, supposedly supernatural and downright spooky woods of Britain.
A tour of the city’s most grisly places …
From flaming torches to blazing tar barrels.
Forget football or horse-racing, when it comes to competitions, these unassuming villages like to do things a little differently.
Arm-wrestling cats, defecating cattle and the chance to win your very own cow – Jo Davey takes the bull by the horns at this quintessentially Japanese bovine festival.
Following their remarkable adventure on the Galápagos Islands, Bryan and June Nelson encountered Prince Philip once again – this time in the Scottish wilds.
“Ooh look, a rhombicuboctahedron!”
This isn’t one for claustrophobes.