After arriving the previous night and checking in my hotel, my "we had never met in person" LED hacker friend, Louis Beaudoin of Pixelmatix fame. Since I had my dual CPU LED outfit with me for the festivals I was going to, I showed it to him, and we geeked out on LEDs:

The next day, I went to the Imperial War Museum in Duxford, hands down the best flight museum in England with an active runway and all kinds of scenic flights:

Seriously, go see my report of the Imperial War Museum in Duxford

The other cool thing is that while I was there, I rented a plane to do a scenic flight over Cambridge to get great views (clickme). A few examples below:

It was not possible to get an uber back to town (only there in the morning), and getting a cab also took a very long time, but thankfully I found someone who had called one already and shared her cab back to the train station. Soon after, I went back our to meet the Woddhouses at Midsummer House, an excellent 2 michelin star rated restaurant

The next morning, I went to meet Anna and Paul who were nice enough to come meet me for breakfast to catch up:

I then went on in town to visit several of the smaller museums: Sedgwick Museum of Earth Science, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Museum of Classical Archaeology, and he Fitzwilliam Museum (that one was a highlight). Thanks to Louis for giving tips on what to go see. By then I had finally figured out how to use the stupid scooters they had lying around, you literally had to give them a valid drivers license and ID before you were trusted to use one, and only in some streets, as many were geofenced out...

I then went to meet Louis and family for some punting which he suggested, and that was a great idea: it is actually the best way to see nice views from colleges from the water side:

I gave punting a shot at the end. I wasn't too terrible ;)

I then had a timed entry for the small Whipple Museum of the History of Science:

and the time I had left, I scootered around to see one college that did let me in, and others from the outside:

It was then time to hurry back to my hotel by the train station and catch a train back to London for Trance on the Thames.