Arrive at Egham. Town seems more pedestrianised than I remember. There's a new road or two. I find the back road up to college again. There are new accommodation buildings and I find my way round them to the reception office. There's a Canadian marching band heading into Athlone Hall. Luckily I don't have to queue behind all 200 of them.
I get my room key, number X11 in one of the new blocks close to my old residence in Williamson House. A small room with a TV, a shower/toilet in a corner cubicle, and the usual student room fixtures and fittings.
Walk round campus a bit - physics has moved out of the old building. I cross the A30 and head for Windsor Great Park. My old favourite tree seems to have gone. I sit by the lake and have some food, watch birds. Walk up to the totem pole - a gift from Canadian pacific coast natives to the queen - and there's a sea otter half way up it. Smiling, I head back to college and bed.
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