Travelog for: Luc Zeke

Hello! Anybody out there? Shall I come out now?

Hello! Did you rescue me from a charity shop?

Will you be my Mummy?

Hello Mummy!

After hatching, Mummy took me out!

Pippi and Regit Brown told me about their travels over a drink.

Mummy says I can have a tag to go travelling. I have only just hatched. Still, I will have to fly the nest at some stage, although I cannot fly.

We said farewell to Charlie B. today.

We had some apple pies.

Have a safe journey little mouse.

Today, we drew straws to see who would go out with Mummy! I won.
We've come to Techniquest, a hands on science centre associated with Glyndwr University in Wrexham

There were all sorts of illusions. Moire images.

Other illusions.


A parabolic mirror

A Bernoulli blower.

Outside, we caught the end of a rocket-launching session.



I think they said the pressure they were going up to was 50psi for these demonstations. 

Back inside, there's a weather station. It wasn't a very windy day.

This is an orb, with a layer of fluid between two domes. Shiny crystals in the fluid show the lines of flow. Mummy spun the orb.

The orb slows down.

It's even slower now.

The others wanted to join in.

Mummy says we'll be going to see grandma today so we'd best get packing.

It's party time! It is Captain Caramel's birthday.

There's a candle on the cake.

After the cake, we played with these balloons!

On our way home, we went via Magna, an industrial science museum set in an old steelworks near Rotherham/Sheffield.
There were 4 zones. The first zone we went to was Water.


A whirlpool exhibit.
Next, we went to Fire.

This is a fire tornado.

Lighting isn't that good for photographs with the fire tornado.

Next stop was Air. This is a musical exhibit with tubes and things.

The exhibit can be quite noisy.

We then went for a game of Air hockey.

The air blows through holes in the table and lifts up the puck ever so slightly.

This is a frequency exhibit with little polystyrene balls bouncing.

This is a different frequency.

Before going on to the final area, we caught some of the Big Melt show, a reconstruction of how they made steel. This is the arc furnace.

We went to the final area, Earth. The set up is quarrying "rocks" and these get picked up by the children and taken somewhere by wheelbarrow before going on conveyor belts and distributed either back to the "quarry" or to a chute.

Can you see the "rocks" on the conveyor belt?

We've already said goodbye to Pippi, regit brown, Captain Caramel and Baconella.
Mummy, is this a new visitor?

Let's open it up.

I hope he can squeeze through this hole.

Yes! he's free. Hello, my name is Luc Zeke , nice to meet you Frankie_Blue

Today, Royal Mail issued some nice stamps and my mummy went out and bought some.

Do you like them?

Today, mummy got two parcels in the post

I wonder who our new visitors will be!

The new visitors are Belka and my brother, Rendolph

Some of the toys are going away on their travels tomorrow, so we thought we'd have a game of Cluedo playing in teams

However, we spent far too much time chatting instead of concentrating on the game and we all drew the 8th clock leaving the crime unsolved.

Mummy took us to the allotment today.

I don't like the heat too much, so I sheltered in the shade on this purple sprouting broccoli plant.

After cooling down, I decided to help Mummy with the weeding.

After the allotment, we went Geocaching

We found this one in Aberdesach.

Today, we are going on the train.

This is first class.

Here, we are at Dinas station. When the Welsh Highland Railway was being rebuilt, Dinas was the HQ. There are work trains and carriages, and engines in need of repair.

The railway meets the River Gwyrfai several times along its route.

There's quite a bit of water in the river.

There are fields alongside the railway, this one has horses.

We are coming into Betws Garmon. Can you see the bell in the church tower?

It is a long train. Can you see the steam engine at the other end?

This is Cwellyn, a reservoir supplying water to parts of north Wales.

We had to wait for the train coming in the other direction to stop at Rhyd Ddu before we could continue. The train is also steam-hauled.

They've got a first class carriage, but the one we're in was unveiled by the Queen in 2010 after refurbishment.

The carriage is called Glaslyn, after another river this railway meets.

We are off for the second half of the journey. This section was opened last year, and then not all the way to Porthmadog.

There's the River Glaslyn.

Here we are coming into Porthmadog. The river is the Glaslyn here too, the estuary.

The river is the Glaslyn here too

The Glaslyn estuary. And now, we have arrived in Porthmadog. It is time to run for the bus to take us back home before school closes for the day.

We are having a nice game of Settlers of Catan.