Bletchley Park
April 11th-13th 2014
Rally Report
April 11th-13th 2014
Rally Report
Our first rally of the year saw us going to a Caravan & Camping site near the Grand Union Canal at Milton Keynes.
Our main aim was to visit the Bletchley Park site where the wartime code breaking took place and Alan Turing produced the Enigma machine capable of breaking codes with thousands of variables in seconds.
Three outfits attended, Neil & Mandy Turner, Stan & Kay Watkins and ourselves. Alistair and Viv were booked to join us but he had an incident with a crane and a canal which meant he was unable to attend. Also Bryan & Betty Wales would have loved to be there but unfortunately Bryan was still in hospital.
Our main aim was to visit the Bletchley Park site where the wartime code breaking took place and Alan Turing produced the Enigma machine capable of breaking codes with thousands of variables in seconds.
Three outfits attended, Neil & Mandy Turner, Stan & Kay Watkins and ourselves. Alistair and Viv were booked to join us but he had an incident with a crane and a canal which meant he was unable to attend. Also Bryan & Betty Wales would have loved to be there but unfortunately Bryan was still in hospital.
A very good site if a little expensive which was quite close to Milton Keynes, but oh those roundabouts, they all looked the same.
I’m sure with a little more time we would have mastered the grid system.
We spent a whole day looking round Bletchley Park, which had plenty of filmed archive material and hands on exhibitions.
There was so much to see and understand that Helen and I went back again for several more hours.
Fortunately the entry fee gives you repeat visits.
One evening was spent in The Barge Inn, a popular pub where we had a very good meal in lovely surroundings with helpful staff.
Another day we ventured to Buckinghamshire Railway Centre which boasts 25 acres of working steam museum. It was truly large with plenty of old carriages, a recreated country station and a chance to ride on a miniature steam train as well as the normal size. Quainton Station is the nearest to the Great Train Robbery and raised the alarm.
On our free day Helen and I went to a National Trust property at Stowe House.
Unfortunately the house wasn’t open as it is also a Public School, but we enjoyed the gardens landscaped by Capability Brown, filled with temples and follies and grottos.
Titan was more impressed by the sheep but he is too well mannered to try and chase them.
Stan and Kay took a trip to Oxford and Neil & Mandy braved Milton Keynes town centre.
It should be dead simple with their grid system!
I think we may well return next year if we can find a decent less expensive site.
Bernard & Helen
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