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blinry

Booked an Interrail Pass to travel to #emfcamp, a hacker camp in the UK! #emf2024

Getting excited! πŸ˜† This will be the first time I use the Channel Tunnel!

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Here I go! \o/ Will make a couple of in-between stops on my way to #emf2024!

camping_equipment.zip

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Changing trains in Cologne.

Hey, if you see this in your timeline, you're Dom-scrolling! :P

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Bonjour, Bruxelles! πŸ‘‹

Just passing through, still not my final stop for today!

But having a very pleasant time so far!

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Made it to Lille, my first stop on this trip. πŸ‡«πŸ‡·

Looking forward to exploring the city tomorrow!

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Whoa, there are cafΓ©s and bakeries everywhere in Lille! Had luck with the weather today, and got to admire its cobblestone streets and brick buildings.

Quite some action in the city today: I saw a wedding with a big traditional choir, and I think there was a football (?) match against Lyon.

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Also, behind this unassuming façade hides a massive 10-storey book store, one of the largest in the country! If only my French was better... :/

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Boarding the Eurostar to London! ✨ Looking forward to see all the fish!

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Didn't spot any fish, but some passengers sang about sharks! 🦈

London *also* is full of loud, drunk men today... :( I'm assuming it's sports-related – does someone know what's going on?

*quickly changes stations, gets on another train and flees*

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I'm in Oxford! Sandstone buildings, bars, and bookshops!

I did this "self-guided tour for new and prospective students", and enjoyed it a lot! It's very well-produced, and playing audio based on my location worked quite well.
ox.ac.uk/students/new/knowyour

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And look who I met! @katzazi and @leyrer! Everyone's gravitating towards #emf2024! :D

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I also visited University of Oxford's Museum of Science, which showcases a lot of scientific instruments, including some super pretty and old astrolabes!

The museum didn't do a good of explaining how to use them, though. Need to look into that later tonight, maybe! :)

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Isn't it weird that humans and bananas *ever* shared a common ancestor?!

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Had a brilliant day in Oxford!

Visited Blackwell's Bookshop! <3 They have a giant underground room with cozy lighting, and staff that radiates their love of books!

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Saw a dodo skeleton at the Natural History Museum!

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Found the Penrose Paving at the Mathematical Institute!

Also learned that they published most of their undergraduate lectures on YouTube: maths.ox.ac.uk/node/67930

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I really enjoyed my stay in Oxford, glad I came here! Such a cool and interesting place!

Tomorrow, I'll head to my final in-between stop before I go to #emf2024!

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Minding the step today.

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I'm in Bletchley! :) Was greeted by a cat committee.

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Visited the National Museum of Computing today. I've been to plenty of computer museums – but this one is special: Almost everything works!

You can type on an Enigma, and then see how a bombe helped decipher it. It's *loud*!!

They also have a computer from 1951, the "Witch", which still works! It had 340 bytes of RAM, could calculate five values per second, and punch them out on paper tape!

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