A long day today. Left Bath at 7:30 AM and didn't get to our new accommodations in the Cotswolds until after 10:30 PM. About 4.5 hours of driving included.
Our first stop was at Bletchley Park, the home of the codebreakers during WWII. Certainly a tremendously important place historically and a fascinating story, but the presentation was somewhat lacking. Confusing, with a lot of repetition. Still, an interesting visit.
The highlight of the day for me was an after hours visit to the Mercedes F1 plant in Brackley. Thanks to David Scott, the brother of one of our traveling companions for arranging the tour. David works for the Mercedes F1 team. We got to see a lot of the manufacturing processes and touch and feel many things. As I'm sure you will understand, photos are banned except for the lobby area. You'll have to take my word that the place is amazing. Many $$$ in this place. We even got to see the race weekend support room. It houses about three dozen people and looks like a NASA control room. They are all connected in real time to the cars, the pits, the racetrack, wherever the team is racing at the time. Monitoring everything. Amazing.
We arrived late at our next stop, Aylworth Manor.
Check out new pics here, including my Mercedes F1 team hat signed by Lewis Hamilton and Valtteri Bottas (thanks David).
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