Walking Contradiction..

My sister, Alice was graduating in Oxford and I didn't quite realise what a town of history it is. One of the lunches, we ate at a place called "The Eagle and the Child" which my sister calls the Bird and the Baby.

She lives almost next to this pub/bar, and is very well known to be the birthplace of the best written literature such as C.S. Lewis' Alice in Wonderland and also J.R.R Tolkien's Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.

This was a small, quaint little English bar, where the prices were not that high (even though its a bit of a touristy place), and it had its bright areas, and its dark corners. I could picture how these writers could literally sit here for ages, going through their notes, leaving this world, into their own imaginative world. New characters were devised in their heads, and maybe it was a bit of their happy place.




I mean we had the standard pub beers off the tap, fish and chips, burgers, salad and all. Something to keep us filled and it was a great atmosphere all in all. It wasn't too packed with people, and one thing about these small English towns is that there are literally like NO Asians there so we probably stuck out like a thumb a bit but it was nice.







More in Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eagle_and_Child