Premier Inn Bedford Priory Marina
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Almost on our way!
We are 7 sleeps away from our Australian travels and are pretty much set to go! Yesterday we picked up our money, it feels new and a little like Monopoly money ;-) Matt enjoyed rolling in it! We also received our final e-ticket confirmation from Malaysia Airlines :-) and we have all paperwork printed and ready to go! This time next week we will behalf way to Sydney, where it is currently 21 degrees at ...
Departure Day
At last the day for departure arrived with a blanket of snow to greet us and confirm that it,s a good plan to be heading for the sun. We were ready to leave early. Sue came with Robin and took us to Welwyn North where we met Lynne and chatted all the way to Leicester Square. we carried on to Heathrow and started with a G &T and a chat with a nice man from Melbourne. Overshadowing all are my thoughts about ...
The final stats
... Distance travelled by bus or car: 1861 miles (2996km)
Total distance travelled: 4471 miles (7198km)
Average daily distance by cycle: 54.6 miles per day (87.87 km per day)
Number of punctures: 7
Number of blown tyres: 2
Number of brake pad replacements: 3
Number of chains snapped: 1
Number of headsets replaced: 2
Number of falls off cycle: 7
Number of stitches in Sophie's ankle: 5
Number of calories ...
A variety of accommodation - differing views
... anything was being fried you were surely going to leave smelling of it too. Good location and parking on site, very homely and I would recommend at the top of the B&B experience that I have had in this city.
There were others, but these were all within the under £100 budget and I have judged them all on the basis of a few days stays rather than just the odd night, unless stated.
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Enigmatic stuff
... coded messages faster. Alan Turing was one of the brains behind cracking the enigma code, but his homosexuality resulted in a criminal prosecution in 1952 and he died two years later from cyanide poisoning.
Bletchley Park itself was secret, as was the work which went on there.
Many of the documents concerning this period are still classified... and it is only recently, in 2009 that Alan Turing received a public pardon.
There were many ...