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 Made it to Lille, my first stop on this trip. 🇫🇷 Looking forward to exploring the city tomorrow! Whoa, there are cafés 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. 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... :/ 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* 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. Found the Penrose Paving at the Mathematical Institute! Also learned that they published most of their undergraduate lectures on YouTube: https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/node/67930 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! |
Bonjour, Bruxelles! 👋
Just passing through, still not my final stop for today!
But having a very pleasant time so far!