In yet another busy week, we went for an extensive punt on the river Cam, toured King’s college, and myself, James, and Daniel went south to Duxford for the annual Flying Legends airshow.
We began our visit of King’s College in the chapel. A staggering structure commissioned by Henry VI; the chapel is a centerpiece of the city of Cambridge. The intricate ceiling and stained glass took decades to complete, and the attention to detail clearly paid off. The vaulted ceilings are truly a sight to behold. We moved onto the College’s private Turing archive, where we saw original copies of papers, and read personal letters to a close friend after the war. These letters were haunting, and displayed the mental torture Turing endured during the chemical castration enforced upon him by the British Government.
A squadron of 12 Spitfires. 
The last flyable B-17 remaining in Europe
There were both amazing and historic flight displays, ranging from the modern Red Arrows to the historic planes of WWI and WWII, although the one plane from WWI had some technical difficulties and didn’t make it off the ground. We saw over a quarter of the world’s remaining flyable Spitfires in a choreographed dogfight, followed by air raid sirens blaring as Luftwaffe planes circled overhead. One of the final feats of flight was a pair of wing-walkers. Wing-walkers are attached to a pivoting harness on the top wing of a bi-plane, and as the plane does loops and barrel-rolls, the wing-walkers dance—completely exposed to the sky. This day was bookended by a 12-mile bike ride to and from Duxford, at least for me.
The bike has been a very important aspect of my daily life in Cambridge, and it seems fitting seeing as Cambridge is the cycling capital of England. For the first week, when I did not have a bicycle, it was challenging watching all these cyclists blaze past me on the bus or whilst walking. Now, that I have a bike however, the city feels much more accessible.