Day 6 (10-31-2000) - Another Day In Reading
   
 
I spent the evening prior in the center of Reading at the Royal Country Hotel. After checking in I walked down the block to a pedestrian district called The Oracle. I stuck my head in a few of the pubs there, settling on a Wetherspoon's establishment called The Monk's Retreat. The street shots below (taken prior to check-out) are of the area I wandered in the evening before...
 
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At work, and at the nearby village of Sonning-On-Thames for lunch. Sonning has been around since Anglo-Saxon times and the church dates back hundreds of years as well...
 
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Back at work...
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The work continued over dinner at the nearby Bull Hotel...
 
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The next 2 nights were spent at The Great House At Sonning, pictured above in the lunch section...