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Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Chaucer's stairs
Obviously these stairs don't really date from the 14th century; at least I don't think so.
The friends who saw me take a nasty tumble a couple of weeks ago because of some broken 21st century pavement in Berkeley will probably be relieved to know that I do not have to drag my klutzy self up that spiral staircase—with the rope handrail!—to get to my room.
That's my door in the picture, and the staircase I take from the ground floor is old but wide, and has actual metal handrails on both sides. Which I use.
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architecture,
England,
made me laugh,
Merton College,
Oxford,
stairs
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