1187 1190 On the tour at Bletchley we got to go in the room with the rebuilt colossus mark 2. This is not normal on the tour but the man who did the rebuild was there and invited us in. Last may he decoded a tape (actually found the keys) something that hadn’t been done since 1945. Not just this tape, no one had decoded any since the war. He said he was buzzing...
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Monthly Archives: July 2004
Victoria and Albert
1184 Off to the V&A, Victoria and Albert museum, today. Nadya found this museum much more fascinating than I did. I did manage to find another photographer to research. N. Hatakeyama. Look for Blast 1998. And of course there is always Becher and Becher. Went shopping along Oxford Street and I out shopped Nadya. Well not out shopped, she just needed a nap. I never come between Nadya and a nap. Tonight we are...
Another Pub and F1 on Regents Street
To finish off yesterday. The weather held up and we trundled past the New Globe to The Anchor Pub. There’s been a tavern on that site for the last 800 years. Then we strolled over to St. Paul’s just because we wanted to walk over the Millennium footbridge. The cathedral was covered in tarps but they’d printed architectural drawings on the tarps so you could see what you were missing. 1172 1175 1178 1181...
Tate Modern
1169 The Tate Modern building is as fabulous as I had heard. Even Jim was impressed. The building hums; there are still transformers in the building being used by London Power. On the audio tour the architect said he thought the sound was sexy. He also felt, as we did, that it very much fit the space. Since the transformers will eventually he retired the architect likened it to “the last sigh of the...
Tate Modern
1136 1142 1145 1160 London eye, too tall for some. A beautiful day so take a stroll along the south side of the themes. Along the way I spot the boat car. The Parliament buildings glow in the sunshine. To the Tate modern where we have a drink and avoid the 2.10 pound coke (3.86 dollars). Jim looks at the art and Nadya looks at the building. Of course I get the condensed version...