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    • Traveler2023 trip
      1
      11211
      Day 16

      Narrowboat week 1

      August 29, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

      Weedon to Leighton Buzzard
      Highlights
      Blissworth Tunnel - a 3 km tunnel
      The 7 locks at Stoke Bruerne
      Towards Milton Keyes - an aqueduct, a pedestrian tunnel and a Victorian brick kiln at Great Linford
      To Leighton Buzzard      Read more

    • TravelerGroßbritannien und Irland
      Day 8

      Bike/Van Abenteuer & Spätzle mit Soß

      June 29, 2022 in England ⋅ ☁️ 21 °C

      Diesen Morgen haben wir es etwas ruhiger angehen lassen.
      Da wir aber in der Nähe eines sehr bekannten Bikepark standen, konnte Joel sich die Gelegenheit nich entgehen lassen. Leider war der Bikepark wegen Umbau geschlossen …. nur ein kleiner Teil war geöffnet. Den ist Joel dann gefühlte 100 mal gefahren 😂
      Am Nachmittag sind wir dann weiter zum nächsten Spot für die Nacht gefahren. Auf dem Navi standen 16 Minuten.
      Tja, wenn man sich auf Google Maps verlässt kann es schon mal spannend werden. Denn der Weg den wir langgefahren sind war alles andere als normal. Es war eine komplette Offroad-Strecke mit heftigen Schräglagen. Unsere Nerven lagen blank und das Adrenalin war am Anschlag. Nach einer Dreiviertelstunde waren wir dann wieder auf einer festen Straße. Eig war alles halb so wild und hat definitiv im Nachhinein auch Spaß gemacht.

      Auf dem Weg sind wir dann noch an riesigen Rotwildherden vorbei gefahren. So viele Rehe in freier Wildbahn haben wir noch nie gesehen. Sehr spektakulär.

      Am Schlafplatz angekommen haben wir erst mal eine Runde Spätzle mit Soß gemacht.      Read more

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    • TravelerI Churchills fotspår
      Day 3

      Bletchley Park

      April 14 in England ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C

      Avresa 08:30 för 1 1/2 timmars bussresa till Bletchley Park, platsen som är vida känd för att det var här som kodknäckare lyckades tolka meddelanden som var krypterade med en Enigma-maskin.

      Den mest omtalade av dessa kodknäckare är Alan Turing. En speciell människa med stor intelligens. Dog strax efter krigsslutet.

      Historien om Bletchley är både lång och intressant och får inte plats här. Intresserade rekommenderas att själva botanisera bland all dokumentation som finns.

      Det polska minnesmärket i form av en uppslagen bok är för att ära de tre polska kodknäckare som löste den första Enigma-koden före Bletchley. Inför hotet om invasion av Tyskland överlämnade de sitt material till Bletchley så att det inte skulle falla i fiendens händer.

      Vi fick två timmar på oss att utforska Bletchley och vi kunde gärna tillbringat dubbelt så lång tid där. Avslutade med att handla böcker och lite annat i shopen.

      Sedan buss till Portsmouth med lunchpaus vid en vägkrog (ett matgalleri med allehanda snabbmat).

      I Portsmouth besökte vi The D-Day Story, ett museum dedikerat till operation Overlord. Mycket intressant där med och alldeles för lite tid. Där finns också Overlord Tapestry som är en nutida motsvarighet till Bayeux-tapeten, som vi kommer att se senare under resan. Jag har en bok om D-Day-tapeten om någon är nyfiken.

      Åter ett Ibis-hotell som även detta försöker göra en dygd av att det är trångt och sparsamt utrustat. De förklarar allt med att de är miljömedvetna. Men vi är ju iofs här för att uppleva saker och inte mysa på hotellet.

      Tidig middag på en närbelägen pub och sedan nattning. Vi ska vara redo för avfärd 06:15, frukost 05:30 och uppstigning 04:45.

      Vem har kommit på att detta ska kallas semester? ;-)      Read more

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    • TravelerJenseits des Tweed
      Day 23

      Die Codeknacker von Bletchley Park

      July 2, 2023 in England ⋅ ☁️ 18 °C

      An diesem letzten Sonntagnachmittag auf der Reise besuchte ich einen Ort, der Geschichte der Kryptografie und der Computerentwicklung einen Meilenstein darstellt: Bletchley Park.
      Während des zweiten Weltkrieges gelangs es den Briten mit Hilfe ihres genialen Mathematikers Alan Turing, den Geheimcode der Deutschen, der mit Hilfe der sogenannten Enigma-Maschine verschlüsselt wurde, zu knacken.
      Da der Verschlüsselungscode der Enigma-Maschine (bei dem jeder Buchstabe einer Botschaft durch drei Walzen insgesamt sechsmal in einen anderen Buchstaben verschlüsselt wurde) fast täglich geändert wurde, entwickelte Turing (auch mit Hilfe polnischer Kryptoanalytiker) einen der ersten analogen Rechner , die sogenannte "Bomba". Dieser analoge Rechner knackte den jeweils neuen Code der Enigma-Maschine durch das schnelle Durchprobieren möglicher Verschlüsselungskombinationen, eine Methode, welche auch in der Kryptographie heute als "brute force" Methode bekannt ist.
      In Bletchley Park wurde während des zweiten Weltkrieges zum ersten Mal Dechiffrierung von Nachrichten im industriellen Massstab betrieben. Der Ort in der Grafschaft Buckinghamshire wurde nicht nur deswegen ausgewählt, weil er weit ausserhalb vom bombengefährdeten London lag, sondern auch, weil er auf halbem Weg zwischen den Universitätsstädten Oxford und Cambridge liegt.      Read more

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    • Traveler100 Skies without You
      Day 76

      Welcome to Wakonda

      June 26, 2022 in England ⋅ 🌙 9 °C

      I went all out for this dress up party 🥳

      Dancing was more fun this evening I had a really good instructor who broke down the basics super well and I felt like I could start bringing my other dance stuff in.

      Also I think I've acclimated to dancing so close.      Read more

    • TravelerEscape to USA, France and UK
      1
      Day 110

      Now at Olney, bonding with Gill and Bob

      November 16, 2021 in England ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

      This morning was a cloudless, bright and perfect London day. We spent the time doing more park walking as it was so glorious! Found ourselves in Kensington Gardens, past Peter Pan, the Albert Memorial and Royal Albert Hall…it was wise to enjoy the sunny morning, as by afternoon it clouded over!

       Our train to Milton Keynes left at 1.45 - only a 35 minute journey - but it was a fast train that left from Euston, so it became quite a “journey”. Gill and Bob were there to meet us, so lovely to see them!! We are again the first Aussies that they have seen since covid. We met them in 2019 in Buxton for a couple of days, and before that where they used to live in Scotland, in the Borders. So this is the first time here in Olney where they moved about a year ago. Lovely little town and we will explore it with them. We are staying in the local pub - The Bull - which is just lovely. Have a fancy room which we forgot to take photo of before we got it all messy, so will try to remember tomorrow if the room gets made up again …(these covid days rooms don’t always get done each day..). We are a walking distance from their place, and are at the moment relaxing before dinner.

      When we arrived we went to their house and had a cup of tea and initial chat, then went back down to check in and unpack and we had a look round and found a bottle shop to get wine. Gill has made a lasagna for tonight - yum - she is a wonderful cook and hostess, and it is good to be staying at the pub as she doesn’t have to be a 24 hour hostess and can have breaks from us! We are however taking a backpack of washing to put through her machine…undies are fine, but hard to wash and dry shirts and skivvies and pants in hotels!

      …well now back from dinner…lovely home cooked dinner. Lovely evening. We will leisurely meet them tomorrow morning after breakfast here…and am sure it will be a hearty English breakfast…there were many diners in the restaurant here…a good sign on a Tuesday night.      Read more

    • TravelerEscape to USA, France and UK
      Day 112

      Another leisurely and delightful day

      November 18, 2021 in England ⋅ ⛅ 9 °C

      Another peaceful day with Gill and Bob. After breakfast we walked with them through the market which happens on Thursdays in Olney, then round the town discovering little alleys and places we hadn’t seen, through the fields to the river - the Ouse - which turns up everywhere we go! Had a plowman’s lunch at G and B’s, then they drove us to Woburn Abbey, fairly close. The Abbey is closed for the season, but we had a great walk through the enormous grounds - this is the land of the duke of Bedford (or now his son, the marquis of Tavistock) - and it is a deer park and, except for the stags that seemed to stare at us a bit menacingly, was very beautiful and peaceful, and again stunning with the autumn colours.

      Back for dinner with G and B, and now back and ready to leave in the morning. We get a train back to London in the morning arriving at Euston, and then go to Paddington to get the train to Bristol, where we arrive at about 4 pm. A travel day coming up!      Read more

    • TravelerEscape to USA, France and UK
      13
      Day 111

      Lovely day with Gill and Bob

      November 17, 2021 in England ⋅ ⛅ 4 °C

      Today we had a leisurely breakfast - delicious full breakfast, eggs, toast …not great coffee!..we had that later…met Gill and Bob and they took us to castle Ashby nearby, though they hadn’t been there before, where we walked round the gardens…the castle itself not open now…the gardens were lovely, and the old church and churchyard, very peaceful and not many people.

      Came back and Gill whipped up some bruschetta for lunch and we went off again and they took us round the countryside to the farm where Gill lived as a child - this is the area where both she and Gill had lived as children, so many memories. Very pretty farm areas, with the river Ouse winding through. We passed through many delightful villages, very “English” with pretty cottages with thatched roofs, old churches, village squares…one of these was Newport Pagnell which is the home of the Aston Martin! Amr and Bob were very excited with the rather beautiful cars on show!

      Then we went back and had a cup of tea, watched Jeremy Clarkson on his TV show trying his hand at farming that we hadn’t seen, before going back to the hotel for R and R. Then Bob came down at 6.45 and we got fish and chips which we had at their place and a plum pie! What more could you want.      Read more

    • TravelerWestern Europe Wiggle
      2
      Day 26

      Bletchley Park

      August 26, 2015 in England ⋅ 🌧 16 °C

      Went to see the now-famous (once top secret) wartime codebreaking center. There's actually quite a bit to see around the site and I think I spent a bit too long following around the audio guide (of the outdoors) instead of looking at the displays indoors.

      Most impressive was the working rebuilt replica Bombe (electro-mechanical-)machine, designed (but not built) by Alan Turing, to break the German enigma codes in WW2. Also interesting were the restored huts in which the codebreakers worked.

      I didn't realise until the end that there was a separate National Museum of Computing next door (that is separate because of an ongoing spat between the organisations). They had a separate entry fee and a replica Colossus (the first actual programmable electronic digital computer), also used for codebreaking. Unfortunately by the time I realised this there wasn't time to see it :(

      I did stumble upon an interesting little exhibit on radio, including amateur radio station, near the exit. It was inside Bletchley Park so free bonus!      Read more

    • TravelerWilds of Europe
      Day 40

      Winning the war, one byte at a time.

      May 28, 2017 in England ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C

      It was early in World War 2.
      The problem : break the code that communicates Hitler's strategic plans to his generals. These messages were coded AND encrypted by an unknown machine. This code was so hard it made the usual German Enigma code seem easy as a paper bag.

      The Solution: boffins + machines*

      The boffins (engineers, code breakers, linguists etc) invent the computer to reverse the encryption. They do it without EVER seeing the original machine (the Lorenz SZ 42).

      In the process they invent the electric powered computer in the first dedicated computer facility.
      The movie doesn't tell you half of it...

      All this is now rebuilt on site at Bletchley Park where the secret allied intelligence work happened.
      It has become the national museum of computing. Computers of all eras are there, including the old school retro stuff I've used over 20 years... XT computers Palm pilots, Segas...

      My inner nerd, which isnt so inner, had a ball.

      *(which we now know is the long standing formula for making nerds)      Read more

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