Oxford

Almost a weekend off: Ama-la and Tsering went to Devon early on Saturday morning and stayed the night, meeting Karen and myself in Oxford just after lunch on Sunday for an afternoon at the Magic Cafe in Magdalen Road. This afternoon had been arranged by Bino Tulku, an interesting young Tibetan who has settled in Oxford and is very very passionate about the Tibetan cause. Ama -la also talked a lot about the charity and the work she does with the children, to the bemuesment of many people there who didn't know anything about Art Refuge, and Bino hadn't mentioned us at all, so there was a bit of confusion.







Afterwards, Ama-la requested to go back to her London home as she missed her new found friends so Karen and the lovely David offered to be the drivers and we deposited heron their doorsetp a few hours later (we'd had to do a slight diversion via Milton Keynes). We didn't get away that easily though, as Dolma and Martin her hubby dragged us in for a cuppa, and unbeknownst to us were busy cooking us dinner while we chatted to Rinzin. We couldn't really say no to that could we now! They'd told us they were cooking dinner anyway...but then it turned out they'd had a very late lunch so weren't planning on having any dinner at all! What a family! Lesson: never trust a Tibetan in the kitchen!