Overall public reflections of trip.
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. “ JRR Tolkien
I use work-terminology that is all grounded in the context of these places, “SSL encryption”, “encryption keys”, “Turing complete language”, “Turing test for AI”, “core dump”,.
To walk in the city where my grandfather and father were born. To see a hint of the post-Industrial Revolution, war-torn, mass-unemployment Britain they escaped to find an education and a life for their boys.
What a wonderful opportunity to go outside my front door.
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What was the strangest thing I encountered? No shower taps. None. Just “thermostatic valve bars” or “electric shower” boxes.
One more thing: I never will get used to pedestrian crossings that don’t beep at you. In Sydney you are conditioned to going off into a dream whilst waiting for a crossing, but if you do that in London, you will find the crossing is flashing red and people are giving you an embarrassed smile as they cross.