It was my first week back in Cambridge after nearly a month away in Florence. The bad news was that at the end of my trip away, my computer had stopped working. I took it along to a computer repair shop in Cambridge, but they seemed to think it was unfixable, at least without paying… Continue reading Week 123: Giraffe Club Cup and Lunar New Year
It was my third week at the Galileo Galilee Institute Winter School in Florence. This week, the lectures were focused on the Cosmic Microwave Background, and Flavour Physics. Each day, I would leave the hotel and cycle up the short but steep road to the Institute, sit for several hours of lectures, eat lunch at… Continue reading Florence Trip: GGI Week 3
It was the second week of the Galileo Galilee Institute Winter School in Florence. I was staying in a hotel south of the river, riding up the hill to the University of Florence campus to attend the lectures. They were long days, filtering between the same lecture hall, the lunch hall and the office that… Continue reading Florence Trip: GGI Week 2
For the next three weeks, I would be in Italy, for the Galileo Galilee Institute of Physics Winter School. There would be a series of lectures on a number of different topics, and I was eager to explore a little bit of Tuscany while I was there. Consequentially, I had decided to take my bicycle… Continue reading Florence Trip: GGI Week 1
Jacqueline and I landed back into Heathrow around midday on New Years Eve. We took the now familiar route on the train back up to Cambridge without much incident. Though we were both tired from the journey, the jet lag was still trying to keep us awake, making it possible to celebrate the New Year.… Continue reading Week 119: New Year’s Week in Cambridge
It was Christmas Eve, and we had just returned to Vancouver after a week of skiing up in Whistler. Our bodies were exhausted after five long days of skiing, so we took it easy in the morning. Jacqueline’s mother then had to run some errands, so we tagged a long on a drive throughout North… Continue reading Canada Trip: Days 14-18 – A Snowy Christmas
Early on Tuesday morning, Jacqueline and I woke up on the North Shore of Vancouver. Today was the day we planned to hit the snow for the first time up at Whistler. Her father offered to drive us up, so we packed everything into the van and set off. Driving through the dark on the… Continue reading Canada Trip: Days 9-13 – Whistler
