Oxford: Cottages
Rent a cottage of your own and live life like a local for a few days or weeks
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A place to call your own for the night or the week—renting a cottage, house, or villa in the U.K.
Harrods of London installed a novelty in 1898: the world's first true escalator (to be fair, an inclined moving belt with metal bars for traction did make its debut two years earlier on Coney Island). The oddness of a moving staircase so unnerved many shoppers that employees were stationed near it with smelling salts and cognac to help revive those overcome with fear.
