Heading home via the Science Museum

..as described in the blog

Last year we followed our trip to Hyper Japan with the Formula E finals. This year the timings are different, so we settled for a trip to one of my favourite places in the world, the Science Museum. They’ve added a few bits since we last visited. There’s a great section about you as a person and a machine, and another about energy. They’ve still got the displays of stuff from the past, which is being updated and now contains a disconcerting amount of stuff that I remember….

When does a “new” sticker stop being a thing?

Right hand drive…

Thanks to my recent outing I was able to describe in excruciating detail what all the various bits do.

The start of somethiung big…

My favourite machine of the day. A single cable goes up and down around 10 pulleys which are slightly off centre and rotate at different speeds to simulate the effect of various celestial bodies (sun, moon, planets etc) on the earth. The cable ends up being connected to a pen that draws a line on paper drawn through the machine from one spool to the other. In other words, you turn the handle on the right and the machine displays future tide levels.

Then we got on our train back to Hull and were treated to exactly the same experience going home as we had getting to London. This time they added more excitement with live arrival data for both our train and our connecting one. They also added more jeopardy, with hardly any trains going to Hull later that evening. Would be we stuck in Doncaster? Fortunately, again, both trains were late, but in a good way for us. Why didn’t we just catch a train that that straight from Hull to London you ask? Well, last time I did that the train wasn’t late. It just wasn’t there. I think I’m reaching the point where train travel is just too exciting for me. Anyhoo, it has been a great couple of days.