samedi, juillet 28, 2007
Coming home
Well, back to the rainy and cold "summer" in Paris, actually kind of nice after the heat wave of Vienna. Apart from the strong risk of melting away, Vienna was really great though. Especially once we moved into our lovely air-conditioned palace!
The conference was a wierd sort of coming home experience, since I hung out with a few people from Sydney Uni (mostly a bunch of Irish people who are now there, my old PhD supervisor and a few other academics, and a few young-uns who had only ever heard of me!), caught up on all the goss about the department, found out that life in the labs where I spent almost five years, not counting undergrad traipsing around the corridors looking for tute rooms and labs, is ticking along just fine without me. So it was a funny nostalgia spiced trip in a place I've never been before.
Anyway, enough of that, I'll put up some photos instead:
The purpose of the trip.
Some of the Australo-Irish gang I drank beer with, in the courtyard of the uni with all the posters in the background (mine is there somewhere!).
The plenery lectures were held in a church! Tell me, oh churchies among you, is this not slightly blasphemous? Certainly all the lecturers made jokes about having given plenty of lectures but never from a pulpit before! Gorgeous location, but unfortunately I think the acoustics in churches are designed to boom intimidatingly across the masses rather than to aid the explanation of metalloprotein active site mutations from someone whose first language is not english!
Come and listen to the Vienna symphony broadcast on a big screen under the stars, whilst behind youthere is a fantastic food and drink market where all the local restaurants sell their stuff. And in case the music gets boring, the backdrop is the gorgeous Vienna Cityhall. Magic.
Well, we forgot our cossies, but our feet at least had a swim in the Danube, although they were cut off in this self portrait auto-timer photo!
A section of the Danube lined with really lovely open air restaurants and bars. So nice!
The conference was a wierd sort of coming home experience, since I hung out with a few people from Sydney Uni (mostly a bunch of Irish people who are now there, my old PhD supervisor and a few other academics, and a few young-uns who had only ever heard of me!), caught up on all the goss about the department, found out that life in the labs where I spent almost five years, not counting undergrad traipsing around the corridors looking for tute rooms and labs, is ticking along just fine without me. So it was a funny nostalgia spiced trip in a place I've never been before.
Anyway, enough of that, I'll put up some photos instead:
The purpose of the trip.
Some of the Australo-Irish gang I drank beer with, in the courtyard of the uni with all the posters in the background (mine is there somewhere!).
The plenery lectures were held in a church! Tell me, oh churchies among you, is this not slightly blasphemous? Certainly all the lecturers made jokes about having given plenty of lectures but never from a pulpit before! Gorgeous location, but unfortunately I think the acoustics in churches are designed to boom intimidatingly across the masses rather than to aid the explanation of metalloprotein active site mutations from someone whose first language is not english!
Come and listen to the Vienna symphony broadcast on a big screen under the stars, whilst behind youthere is a fantastic food and drink market where all the local restaurants sell their stuff. And in case the music gets boring, the backdrop is the gorgeous Vienna Cityhall. Magic.
Well, we forgot our cossies, but our feet at least had a swim in the Danube, although they were cut off in this self portrait auto-timer photo!
A section of the Danube lined with really lovely open air restaurants and bars. So nice!
# posted by Jenny @ 11:17 
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As an experienced "Churchie" I would say that yes, it is blasphemous...they probably have more churches though than academic institutions?
Also, looks gorgeous! very jealous! never mind, we''' share some of your adventures and even possibly make a guest appearance on your international blog too after NYE!! can't wait!
Also, looks gorgeous! very jealous! never mind, we''' share some of your adventures and even possibly make a guest appearance on your international blog too after NYE!! can't wait!
thinking of being in Paris from the 30th Dec till early on the second...happy to do a BnB if that is too long a stay in your tiny abode. let us know what you think!
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