Leiden, Day 2
My apologies in advance for the rambing, possibly incoherent nature of this post. I am tired. Very tired.
The hotel's internet has started working again. Yay!
Today was the first day of the two-day Oort Workshop on protostellar disks. It was interesting, but sitting through a full day of scientific presentations is quite tiring. I was fading fast by the time we got to the last few presentations, I think my brain was on overload. Luckilly the presentations only went until 3:30, if they had gone until 5 or 6 I seriously doubt I would have stayed awake.
Anyway, they ended at 3:30 because we went to The Hague today ("we" refers to the other workshop participants). For those of you that don't know what that is, The Hague is the seat of the government of The Netherlands. No, it's not the capital - that's Amsterdam. Confused? Yeah, I was too. Apparently Holland is one of only a few nations in the world where the government isn't actually located in the capital city. That's kind of odd.
We went to an art museum first, where we spent about 45 minutes. It was ok - the art was quite nice and all, but I think I'm just not an "art person." I respect the talent that goes into creating artwork worthy of being placed in a museum, but I just don't get much enjoyment out of walking around a museum looking at it all. I just don't think it's for me. Oh well.
After that we walked around for a bit and ended up at an outdoor cafe, where we all spent an hour just sitting and drinking beer to kill time until dinner. Dinner was at an Indonesian restaurant - it was nice. The food was pretty good, but nothing to get all that excited about.
I'm including two pictures I took while in The Hague. They were both taken while sitting at the cafe, looking in different directions.
Let's see... other random comments. It's weird being this far north. It's about 10 pm right now, and it's still quite light out. If I had to guess without any knowledge of the time, I would guess it was about 8 at the latest. It's so nice being here after the heat in Austin right now - the high is only about 70. It's perfect! I rented a bike today, so it's now much easier to get around. I'll probably do some serious Leiden-exploring this weekend. If it's not raining, that is. I think that's all.
The hotel's internet has started working again. Yay!
Today was the first day of the two-day Oort Workshop on protostellar disks. It was interesting, but sitting through a full day of scientific presentations is quite tiring. I was fading fast by the time we got to the last few presentations, I think my brain was on overload. Luckilly the presentations only went until 3:30, if they had gone until 5 or 6 I seriously doubt I would have stayed awake.
Anyway, they ended at 3:30 because we went to The Hague today ("we" refers to the other workshop participants). For those of you that don't know what that is, The Hague is the seat of the government of The Netherlands. No, it's not the capital - that's Amsterdam. Confused? Yeah, I was too. Apparently Holland is one of only a few nations in the world where the government isn't actually located in the capital city. That's kind of odd.
We went to an art museum first, where we spent about 45 minutes. It was ok - the art was quite nice and all, but I think I'm just not an "art person." I respect the talent that goes into creating artwork worthy of being placed in a museum, but I just don't get much enjoyment out of walking around a museum looking at it all. I just don't think it's for me. Oh well.
After that we walked around for a bit and ended up at an outdoor cafe, where we all spent an hour just sitting and drinking beer to kill time until dinner. Dinner was at an Indonesian restaurant - it was nice. The food was pretty good, but nothing to get all that excited about.
I'm including two pictures I took while in The Hague. They were both taken while sitting at the cafe, looking in different directions.
Let's see... other random comments. It's weird being this far north. It's about 10 pm right now, and it's still quite light out. If I had to guess without any knowledge of the time, I would guess it was about 8 at the latest. It's so nice being here after the heat in Austin right now - the high is only about 70. It's perfect! I rented a bike today, so it's now much easier to get around. I'll probably do some serious Leiden-exploring this weekend. If it's not raining, that is. I think that's all.
posted by Mike at 10:03 PM
2 Comments:
Glad to hear you are enjoying your trip to Europe. Enjoy yourself and take lots of pictures.
Hi anonymous,
You should leave your name, so I know who you are! :)
(Although I think I know who this is anyway...)
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