Dominic "The Hodge" Hodgson

I hate museums, lets get that out with for a start, my attention span means that I can do the average museum in about 20 minutes and I’ve been to quite a few

Today Bletchley Park suprised me……… because it was fantastic.Lets start with arriving at the venue, we were greeted to a sign which said “Geek Day Out”… surprising because we were aware that nothing had been booked and we were just going to be “normal” visitors for the day, it turns out that the staff at Bletchley had seen the tweets and had an estimate of how many geeks would be turning up and decided to plan a day for us.

We were greeted at the entrance by a lovely women who I’m afraid to say I didn’t get the name of but she was fantastically helpful and organised, the tours had already been booked up for the day so she had arranged some extra ones especially for the geeks.

We had a talk with a bloke about the Enigma and a brief introduction to it and then we were given a guided tour around the park with a man I nicknamed “Mr Wikipedia”, I’ve sat in lectures, talks, presentations and other tours and been bored pretty quickly in most of them, this guy kept me hooked onto every word, each building had a story and each story had significance, he was absolutely fantastic and it was actually quite a long tour at almost an hour and a half but it seemed to go very quickly, he knew just about everything there was to know about the park and it really gave something extra to the experience.

I have a few books on WWII and its always been of intrest to me, today opened up a whole new world to explore and I dare say the books that I’ve bought will soon be read and lead me to ask more questions.

There is far too much to do in one day, because of the travel we only had a few short hours at Bletchley but it was simply fantastic and I wanted to say thank you to Neil for sorting it out, to the staff at Bletchley (including Mr. Wikipedia) and Dr. Tim for driving us!

*I just wanted to note the in this case the use of wikipedia is in reference to the amount of knowledge the guide offered, this is not a derogatory term in reference to the college humor skit.

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