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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?