Dreaming spires

I was in Oxford for the first time on Sunday. Very pretty but the city centre seems to essentially be the University with a couple of shops filling the gaps. Took an open top bus tour - £11.50 per adult. It involved an hour driving round the centre of town having each college pointed out and...that was about it. Thank god we didn't pay for it. If you ever find yourself in the city at a loss of what to do, I highly recommend not taking a tour. Stare at a bush or something instead. Honestly, it's better value for money. You could, perhaps, play the exicitng game of "see how many black insects you can have crawling over your exposed skin at one time". I think I won that particular challenge - still no idea what they were though. Kind of ant-ish flies, if that makes sense - pretty skanky. They were probably some kind of useful CO2 absorbing creature that thrived on foppishness and intelligence, which is why I haven't noticed them around the hood before.