Colossus - The first computer

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At Betchley Park you can have a look at Colossus, the world's first electronic, digital, programmable computer. It was used to try to decipher German coding during WWII. It has taken nearly fifteen years to rebuild it and is using (then) state-of-the-art vacuum tubes (thermionic valves), thyratrons and photomultipliers to optically read a paper tape and then applied a programmable logical function to every character, counting how often this function returned "true". It can proces 5,000 characters per second. (your iPhone millions)

Telephone box

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I had to take at least one picture before they are all gone...

Picasso?

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William & Mary plate

Day 16 - Oxford

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Lots of Colleges

In the Ashmolean museum

In the Ashmolean Museum

White: I just started - Pink: I am Halfway - Red: I am done.

Harry Potters' Hogwarts Dining room

Kitty kitty

College

College

Oxford is nothing more then a group of Colleges which make up the University. Almost everything is owned by some College. It is fun to walk around and see the quirky way the educate here (as long as it lasts). A lot of Harry Potter kind of scenes as well.

Day 15 - The Midlands

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LongLeat House

The Madonna with the Big Boobies (for real!)

Stonehenge

LongLeat House

On our way from Bath to Oxford we came by some interesting places like Longleat House and Stonehenge. Stonehenge is actually not that interesting and great - millions of tourists - but it is the most famous artifact from the prehistoric period, so something you have to see in you lifetime for real. (So an other thing we can check from our bucket list).

Day 14 - Bath

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Pulteney Bridge - designed by Robert Adams

Jacobs' Ladder

The Bath in...uh... Bath!

Circus Crescent

Bath is a very popular tourist town. It has been since the romans found a hot spring here. The Baths are still there and the museum gives you a good impression about the development since the Romans. Also famous of course are the crescents - ons of the most prestigious addresses in the world perhaps. If only the houses were nice as well - they are not I think. The lay out is nice though.

Day 13 - Cardiff (castle)

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We did not had so much time to spend in Cardiff - but is seems a pretty town. The highlight is  Cardiff Castle which is actually something created in the 19th century and is a sort of Neu Swanstein all over- and inside.

Day 12 - Wales

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On the road

Trying to avoid sheep

In a slate mine - deep under ground

Wales really stole my heart - it is gorgeous! The roads are perfect, empty and made for riding motor cycles it seems... The weather was so-so but that did not prevent us from having fun. If only the midges weren't there in the summer - they are really a huge (or tiny...?) nuisance.

Statues at Chatsworth

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Rolls Royce & Bentley Club at Chatsworth

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1960 Bentley S2 Continental (Mulliner)?

1960 Bentley S2 Continental Saloon (Young)

Lots of fine cars