Taste of Country Sophistication in Oxfordshire

Restaurant at the Mill and Old Swan. Most elegant bar food ever tasted.

(All pictures below were taken with an iphone camera with notoriously low resolutions in poor lighting, so they do not do half justice to the food displayed.)

Spinach soup with poached egg.

Warm chorizo and new potato salad, with spinach and goat cheese, in balsamic dressing

Steak flatbread

The Fishes near Oxford

Sea Bass with cauliflower mash and watercress

Thai-marinated half quail, warm bok choy and bean sprout salad, lime and coriander dressing

Fish board: crayfish tails, potted crab, taramasalata, spicy cornish plaice goujons

重返牛津

上周末租了车，一个多小时的行程，直奔了牛津小镇。十多年前来过这里，同样是典型的英国冬天阴郁灰色的天气，同样是土黄色的牛津的哥特式的尖塔，同样是随处停放的各款各型的自行车 － 我回来了，好像一场没有醒过来的梦。

一直很喜欢大学城的感觉，咖啡馆里用餐喝咖啡的老师／教授们，行色匆匆许是去往图书馆路上的学生，满身是泥土的刚刚踢完足球的男生 － 一切都充满了生机和趣味。我想我不会介意在这里悠然的度过很多很多的日子。

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桥栏杆上的青苔，静静的看河水不息的流动。