Tuesday evening: Barley diet!

Once in a while, it's good to have a meal based mostly on very healthy stuff, like barley juice of various sorts. And it's so much better in good friends' company! The fact that this time it was Tuesday evening, ment a slightly reduced efficiency next day, but... It was truly worth it!!

... Looking forward next time!!

Dublin fair city...

Why not? One weekend in Dublin. It was about time to go, after 15 years since I visited this fair city (where the girls are so pretty, as the song goes). But mainly the chance to meet old friends and make new ones, attend two brilliant Spanish house parties, have lots of Guinness, meet Molly Malone again, and of course, stock myself of real tea (in authentic pyramidal bags) before catching the plain back!!

Jazz fusion at the Harlem Jazz Club

Carles Benavent and Jordi Bonell at the Harlem Jazz Club in Barcelona. One of those concerts to remember. Thanks Jordi for suggesting it!!

Jazz at the Jamboree

Back in Barcelona, and back in old traditions... starting with a Jazzy concert at the Jamboree, in the Plac,a Reial.

Bye Goblin King Tour

Have you seen this guy? You better hurry up then, he is getting married on Friday (23rd of May). To try to cheer him up, and to brighten his last days as a single man (or as a single Goblin), we took him for a trip, and a party, and the journey and the party went on till he begged us to take him home again...

He was woken up at dawn, and toured in Barcelona. Then he was taken to Girona and and then to the UK!!



He was getting used to the Islands, and then we took him again on a train...



... onto another plane... and to Berlin!!

And here he was starting to feel a bit tired...



...and confused...



... but after some light snack, we were in the mood for travelling and partying again!!



So we travelled some more...



And had some more snacks...




... and some refreshments to go...



... and took a tram to explore the city!!



From the tram we could see everything in the city very quickly...



...and from the speed everything was getting blurry...



... but in any case, we all hope The Gobling King had a good time!!

Back in Cambridge!!

I had been back in Cambridge several times since I finished my PhD here, but it had always been just to visit some friends (and attend some of those friends weddings!!), or do a bit of tourism, and even shopping. This time, I won't only be doing a bit of that, but I'm coming to stay for a few months, and best of all, during that time I'll be working in my old lab!!

It was a fantastic feeling to land in Dover on an incredibly sunny day of April, and drive back to this beautiful city again, listening to BBC on he car radio, etc. Today the weather is a bit more 'versatile', and we've had sunny but windy weather in the morning, sunny weather later on, and a few minutes ago there has been a thunderstorm.

In any case, Cambridge has, and has not changed at all. Obviously, Colleges are all there, as far as I can tell, as well as all of the sights, but I've found that a whole new shopping mall has just appeared in the very city center, and I am told that a new bridge has been built across the Cam.

Definitely, I need to keep exploring and rediscovering the city...