Travel Tuesday: Come Over to the Window II

posted on September 24, 2013

See Part I here.

For today’s Travel Tuesday, I’m sharing shots taken from a window — again. Today’s batch comes from a single window: the one in the room I stayed in the first couple of weeks I was in Oxford. I was put up with a host family, and I spent the entire first weekend indoors because the airline lost my luggage and it didn’t occur to anyone to let me borrow some clothes while I waited for it. (In fact, the woman who lived there attempted to sell me a party tank top she’d bought as a gift for a relative. Welcoming. She also thought it was unhygienic to let me borrow a towel, so instead she gave me two tiny kitchen towels to dry off after I showered. Some of the many reasons I complained and got moved!)

So here, have some suburbs as colored by the weather.

All images © Lix Hewett Photography. Want a print (or a card or a phone case or even a pouch) of a photo that’s not up on my shop? Let me know! I’ll be more than happy to list it.

* Linking up with Belinda and Bonnie for Travel Tuesday.

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La Caseta de Paper

That’s a pretty window view! There’s something special about spying through a window, for some really I really like to see what others see from it.

BUT no matter how pretty the view from the window was, the host family you got sounds indeed very not welcoming. Kitchen towels! That’s to die for! I’m glad you moved.
- Lix Hewett
  
  It was pretty terrible! I wish they’d moved me earlier, because I went from that awful host family way out in Kidlington to a student house in Jericho where my room was massive and had its own sink and mirror and a closet AND a chest of drawers, and a nice garden and basically it was great. But I only got to spend a week in there, haha.
LO_TS

Wow that family sounds a nightmare – how cheeky of them! Lovely shots though, makes me detest the view from my window even more however. View of a freeway from one and more apartment buidlings from another! GET ME OUT OF HERE!
- Lix Hewett
  
  They really were! Thanks, and if it’s any consolation, the view out my current window is pretty terrible, too.
splendidlittlestars

oh yeah. very welcoming. unbelievable! uugh!
When I stay in places, I like to take photos out the window, too.
The rain shot is cool!
- Lix Hewett
  
  Thanks!
  
  That family was just all around odd. And the room I got was tiny, no mirror, no closet, no desk. The chest of drawers was dusty. It was awful.
Katie Baker

So pretty! I love the rain shot!

I’m surprised she didn’t think the kitchen towels were unhygienic, too. :P
- Lix Hewett
  
  Thanks!
  
  Right? I didn’t think of that at the time but I was writing up this post today and it was like, hang on a second.
Lix Hewett

Thanks! It did but it was just more of a reason to spend the whole day out and camp out in coffeeshops, so it worked out well for me. :D

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