Legoland

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Thursday 2nd & Friday 3rd September 2010
Visit to the original Legoland at Billund which will be the most northerly point on our trip.
Thanks to those little interlocking building blocks, the whole world plays with the Danish language.
They are playing with Lego, a name constructed out of the Danish expression leg godt, meaning "play well."
We had a great time - out of season meant no queues so we were able to do the whole place with as many repeat rides as we liked and with the park closing at 5pm it meant we could have a leisurely meal back at camp.

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Photos

Legoland
Entrance day one and ready for action !

Extreme Racer - over the top
Jack and Ben rated this the best ride in the park and rode it ten times.

Jungle Racers
Centrifugal force in action - thats the science lesson over for today !

Comments

[Mrs Rutter]

You look to be having fun. Glad you did science at Legoland!! x

[Mr Fish & Chips]

Re science lesson
Are you sure you did'nt mean centripetal?

[Le Grande Tour]

Centripetal not to be confused with Centrifugal
Hi John, In this case I meant Centrifugal but must confess they always confused me. See definitions below. Centrifugal force (from Latin centrum "center" and fugere "to flee") represents the effects of inertia that arise in connection with rotation and which are experienced as an OUTWARD FORCE away from the center of rotation. Centripetal force is a force that makes a body FOLLOW A CURVED PATH: it is always directed orthogonal to the velocity of the body, toward the instantaneous center of curvature of the path. Regards Paul