Astrid and Ronnies travels

   We flew to Heathrow by El Al on 13/4/23 and took the coach to Oxford. Astrid made the booking some time ago. The purpose was to visit Brenda but she passed away, so it left a vacuum in our visit.   The folk music festival was very good and took us to many venues in Oxford where  the concerts were, at the Quaker Society which is a building in the middle of the city but when you go through to the hall there is a large colourful garden in between. The Old Fire Station has been turned into a theater with a restaurant. The third venue where  you had to book the concert was The Wall in Summertown which includes an art gallery. Other places you could arrive at causally and enter free  were at the covered market but it was very drafty and poor escustics where we sat. The library at the Westgate Shopping Centre also had a concerts but the most interesting place was the Blackwell Book Shop where you have to walk through the whole store and up old wooden steps to finally get there on the top f