EuroTrip '08
clock | April 12, 2008On Friday, we all went to a nearby pub for lunch and passed Watson's old place, with a single helix (probably denoting one half of the pair):
By that time, what little jet-lag I had was gone, and I was ravenous. So, while others had chips (aka French fries), I indulged myself with some juicy English sausages:
Professor Steve Steve came along for lunch and posed for pictures with everyone:
clock | April 12, 2008So, around midnight we decided we were not tired and sleepy enough yet, so we found a pub that was open and had another round....
clock | April 12, 2008After a beer or two at The Eagle, we went for dinner to a nice place where we had to wait a little more, but the wait was worth it as the food was good and the company even better. So, food above the fold (a Before and After picture) and company under the fold:
clock | April 12, 2008Thursday night after work, the Plossians took me out for Guinness at The Eagle:
....more under the fold....
clock | April 12, 2008Steve Steve and I got a desk at the PLoS office to work at:
Bex is the one who really keeps PLoS ONE together:
clock | April 12, 2008More pictures from Daquise, as the alcohol levels in circulation rose... and everyone started singing....
clock | April 12, 2008After we froze at the pub, Karen, Malcolm, Mo, Joe, MissPrism, Nick, Matt, Kara, Professor Steve Steve and I went to a Polish restaurant called Daquise, where we had good food and too much to drink, including a couple of shots of slivowitza....
clock | April 11, 2008After the Museum visit, we went to a nearby pub (Queen's Arms) where we could not get a table, but could get beer and stand outside, until we froze. We were joined by several other people, including Joe, MissPrism, my SciBling Nick and a highschool friend of mine Liliana and her husband.
MissPrism and Selva:
Liliana and her husband:
clock | April 11, 2008Karen, aka Nunatak from the Beagle Project gave us, the science bloggers (including Professor Steve Steve) a special tour of the Darwin Center, a new wing of the Natural History Museum in London. This is where millions of specimens are deposited, studied, classified, described, etc. There are daily tours for the public (once a day for now), but a person can also contact them and ask to be shown a particular specimen.
Who was there? Mo (with his son), Euan, Ed, Malcolm, Matt, Kara, Alf, Selva, Karen, Professor Steve Steve and me.
Karen and Matt have more details of the tour, and Karen and…
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Mo, Ed, Selva, me and Kara in front of the Darwin wing of the Natural History Museum in London.
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On Thursday morning, Mo and I went to see The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery, an amazing exhibition of old plates of early natural history artists, starting with Leonardo. It was awesome! Here is just one of the many drawings and paintings we saw there:
clock | April 11, 2008More Wednesday morning sight-seeing in London, a swan in St.James park and a dramatic rescue!
clock | April 10, 2008When I arrived in London early in the morning on Wednesday, Mo picked me up at Heathrow and we went to his place where I met his lovely wife and beautiful children, then did a little site-seeing close to their home, with Professor Steve Steve, of course - pictures under the fold...