Magic Channing

"You don't want to know want I have to do for twenties..." LOL
(Channing Tatum in Magic Mike, a movie about male strippers, inspired by Tatum’s stripper past.)
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Joggobot - my PT for running?

New from Australia: Eberhard Grather and Floyd Mueller, researchers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology: Joggobot. Using the built-in camera of your Parrot drone, which hones in on sensors in a custom shirt and so keeps you chasing it. Only downside... My Parrot has a terrible battery life of only 15 minutes or so and is not really up to the gusty Dutch storms.
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The advantage of having you own place - idealista.com

My friends at idealista made a funny viral campaign in which couples clearly show the advantage of having your own place above meeting up in a car...
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i går var Sista Svenska Lektionen

Nu är jag helt på min egen utsetts - mina lektioner Svensk är slut. Jag har några bocker och övninger på datorn men jag kan inte lärne mig mer Svensk här i Holland. Lyckligt ska jag aka på Gotland jätte snart och finns det SVT och Bokus...
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Hmmm...


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The day I felt great!

The postman dropped by and handed me my latest order from amazon: The blue ray special edition version of Dam Busters. Couple of DVD's about the enigma and the battle of Brittan. The latest Scott Kelby, The standard work about the Victorians by A.N. Wilson the amazing Taschen book of Information Graphics. Tons of interesting fun that will keep me busy for a couple of days...
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The Galileo from Motrr

I could not resist and had to order the Galileo iPhone (video camera) stand. It's fully remote control and has infinity spherical rotation. Watch the cool video.
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Sale at De Praxis

Not a lot of people buying this stuff...
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Run baby run!

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!
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From my Google reader stats:



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?
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My (NEW!) thimble collection

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 :-))
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Prometheus and Logan

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 :-)
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Hmmm...


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Harwich

Our final view from the British Isles...
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The (Dutch!) Enigma

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.
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Last Day - Duxford museum

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.
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Alan Turing revisited

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?)
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Colossus - The first computer


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)
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Telephone box

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

William & Mary plate
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Day 16 - Oxford

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.
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Day 15 - The Midlands

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).
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Day 14 - Bath

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.
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Day 13 - Cardiff (castle)



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.
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Day 12 - Wales

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.
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Statues at Chatsworth




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