CERN

We planned to go to the Natural History Museum, but when we got there it was closed for renovation (lucky it was only a few minutes walk from the hotel!) Elliott was so desperate to go on a tram, that we decided to go to CERN and see if they’d let us have a go with the Large Hadron Collider. It turned out that they wouldn’t, but they do have some free science exhibits that you can look at, but only once you’ve completed the overly techy guest registration process of:

-Connecting to their WiFi
-Scanning a QR code (that periodically changes to one that asks you to make a donation, rather than just being the one that you sign up with!)
-Entering your details once you’ve reached the correct webpage
-Going up to the desk and showing the confirmation email and then being told just to go through to the exhibits!

First of all we saw an interesting video about how it was formed and what kind of stuff happens there. This was the best part of the whole experience, because there were massive queues for everything but once we got there none of it worked properly, or if it did the screens were really laggy! I did enjoy the VR headset though, more than Mummy as it made her feel funny!Read more