Museums lost and found in the seat of learning and more bikes!

Thursday 24/9/15 
Well today we had plenty of time as we were only driving a short distance to Oxford. 
I was so pleased with our punting yesterday that I asked Rob to choose some activities for today. The first he chose was to visit the Cambridge Museum of Technology. We found it pretty easily despite it not being very well signposted. As it didn't open till 10 am, we went and had a coffeee while waiting. Once it was time for the museum to open we headed back. We waited around near where we thought the entrance was and nobody came. We waited for about 10 minutes and then left. Rob thought he might have better luck at the Cambridge Museum of Computing. Again this was a  challenge to find as it was in an industrial area and not well signposted. This time at least it was open. It cost us £7 pound each to get into this museum and Rob was a little disappointed. It had lots of  old  computers and games from bygone days that you could play on and history about computers but it wasn't that inspiring. We were the only 2 visitors the place had the whole time we were there. From  here we were heading for Oxford. I thought Rob may like to visit Bletchley Park which the movie the "The Immitation Game" is famous for. It was all about the history of the code breaking in World War 2. Unfortunately we were once again thwarted as the park was not well sign posted and due to roadworks we had to drive miles out of our way. We gave up! 
Onward we drove stopping at a pretty little town called Buckingham for lunch. We drove into the centre of Oxford and found a carpark fairly easily. We visited the tourist information centre and found some free museums to visit. The Oxford museum was in the town hall and was excellent, giving a good history of Oxford. From here, we walked amongst many of the famous Oxford University buildings with their gargoyles, to the Museum of the history of science. This was in a building that was built in the 1600's for the purpose of housing scientific discoveries. We saw old scientific equipment dating back to the 1600's and there was even a blackboard that had writing on it from Albert Einstein even though that wasn't quite so old! There was so much see here, we stayed till closing time. I forgot to mention in yesterdays blog that Rob has really struggled with all the cyclists around here both in Oxford and Cambridge. With all the students needing a cheap form of travel it makes sense as cars just crawl through the city centres due to congestion. Many of the cyclists don't wear helmets and ride at such a pace, under-taking cars etc. There are many dedicated cycling lanes etc. The cycle rules.....much to Rob’s disgust. I do think that some of them do take their lives into their own hands though.