“Why, it's a perfect little city. If you have never been to Durham, go there at once. Take my car. It's wonderful.”

— Bill Bryson, book Notes from a Small Island

Bill Bryson was later awarded an honorary doctorate and appointed to the position of Chancellor of the University of Durham http://www.dur.ac.uk/news.service/more.php?item_type=news&itemID=829. <br class="br">Notes from a Small Island (1995)

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