Run baby run!

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When I entered the Dam-2-Dam and Amsterdam marathon runs it seems years away. But now I feel a little unsettled as I discovered that I only have a couple of months to prepare properly... So I am back of (the) track and RUN!

From my Google reader stats:

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From your 76 subscriptions, over the last 30 days you read 153,214 items... Oops that's about 5,000 articles a day - news junkie after all?

My (NEW!) thimble collection

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Challenge: you want to have nice souvenirs from the places you visited during your vacation in the UK but you are on a motorbike with no spare baggage space left... Solution: You start collection thimbles!
I never knew that this is a (old ladies) hobby in the UK: collecting thimbles. Everywhere you go there is always a thimble in the souvenir shop... So there you have it: My humble start with collection thimbles :-))

Prometheus and Logan

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I found Prometheus a great movie - full of suspense, nice 3D effects and actors. Unfortunately Logan (playing Charlie Holloway) is killed somewhere halfway... Luckily for us he has a twin brother... Taylor. So he is not lost :-)

Hmmm...

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Harwich

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Our final view from the British Isles...

The (Dutch!) Enigma

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It was interesting to learn that the original Enigma was a Dutch invention. Two Dutch naval officers, Theo A. van Hengel  and R. P. C. Spengler build the first prototype back in 1915. As so many things (Fokker) it was licensed to the Germans who later build the final Enigma.

Last Day - Duxford museum

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The Lockheed SR-71 is still the world's fastest airplane

V1 - installation

Commander HQ

In Duxford The Imperial War  Museum has its airplane branch. It is huge and the air strip is still used for demonstrations. It also has an American section which specific USA planes from different wars. Duxford used to be am American airfield in WWII.

Alan Turing revisited

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Alans' Teddy bear

His office in Block 8

The most famous code breaker at Bletchley Park was of course Alan Turing. It was special to see his original office and some personal artifacts. Also displayed was the letter of Gordon Brown of 2009 in were the British Government finally acknowledged  that Alan was a true War Hero and that the repression and shame that was put on him as a gay man was totally unacceptable. Alan died at 42 (suicide or murder?)