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Athens update

Athens

As some of you might have seen on the news, there is a few things going on in Athens these days ;)

As the Danish institute is quite close to the parliament we could here the demonstrations and such since they are quite focused on one square they did not really affect us.

What did affect us though was the fact that, after we had lunch on the roof terrace of the Acropolis Museum (which is quite reasonably priced), we wanted to go up and see the Acropolis itself and could not because of the strike :(

So we only had a little walk and went back to work …

In the evening we spent some time on the roof garden of the institute watching the lunar eclipse andhad a reasonably nice dinner in a small restaurant in town with loads of tzatziki :)

Today we plan to spent our lunch break in the National Archaeological Museum to have a look at the Antikythera mechanism amongst others …

CPH – FRA – SXB – FRA – AHN – …

Athens, CERN, Niels Bohr Institue

Finally in Athens!

After flying from Copenhagen to Frankfurt on Sunday, driving to Strasbourg with a rental car, spending two days at C.N.R.S. to look at CMOS sensors, driving by to Frankfurt by car and taking a flight from there to Athens, I know finally arrived at the Danish Institute in town.

To be a bit more precise, I went to Strasbourg to discuss a possible new project to get involved in and to have a look at CMOS detectors they build at C.N.R.S. that we wanna use in the experiment.

And now I am in Athens for about a week for a SMP (stable massive particles) sit-in!

On the plane to Athens I met Cédric a swiss pilot working for Aegean Airlines (greetz) and his lovely colleague who’s name I unfortunately forgot who recommended a few places in town that we might check out during the week …

Btw. the picture shows part of the Acropolis as seen from my balcony when I arrived in our apartment (about now)!

For those of you who can read German: the place shown in this article is exactly where I left the subway yesterday … quite a surprise!

Experimentarium – Body Worlds

Copenhagen

This week I had an old friend (greetz Shaun) staying at our Copenhagen Guest Couch. As the weather has been kinda Copenhagen style and he has already been here back when I did my masters, we decided to go to one of the museums in town … the final choice turned out to be the Experimentarium, for which I had free tickets as a thank you for the tours I gave during the CERN exhibition earlier this year …

They currently had a Gunther von Hagens exhibition called Body World showing real plastinated bodies. Even though I knew most of it already from a previous exhibition in Berlin, it is still quite fascinating to see all the details …

Also the permanent exhibition, featuring all sorts of hands-on exhibits was very nice … and everything, though mainly meant for children, was explained in Danish, Swedish and English!

The only thing that left a slight bitter taste is the fact that a regular visit would cost an adult 22 Euros (children 14 Euros)!?!

Who the he** can afford that on a regular basis?

Smokey Joe got a place in the sun

Copenhagen, Food

To be slightly more specific: Smokey Joe got a place on our balcony, replacing its predecessor Electric Joe.
And to be fully specific: the new Joe is our new portable charcoal BBQ, from now on doing the grilling job on the balcony (in the new apartment we are actually allowed to use it there) and in the parks.
Hmm … I am looking forward to some serious BBQing with this guy …


 Smokey Joe is a registered trademark of Weber (also source of the image).