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Enschede & Rennes

There’s almost too much to write about, which has lead to a wee bit of blog-paralysis. But to summarise, it was a very good trip. The only dull moments were on the plane flights, of which we had eight. Approximately three days of the trip were in airports or on flights.

Highlights: the hill in the Netherlands. The windmill on the hill. The pub nearby the windmill on the hill. The fields and forests and blackberries and horses and cows and goats and sheep and rabbits in the areas surrounding Enschede. The excellent beers in the Netherlands. The enjoyably wacky and enthusiastic crowd of people at the SVG open. Presentations that were, incredibly, fascinating. The astonishingly good airport in Amsterdam. The food in Rennes, of course. Casually superb throughout. We went to a random restaurant on the last day, and it was probably the best of the lot. The kind of nouvelle quisine that you don’t mind when you aren’t completely stuffed, because you don’t want to lose the flavour in your mouth. The medieval restaurant. The company at the working group, somehow much younger and more interesting than I was expecting.

And we didn’t get lost, or lose anything, or miss any trains or flights. It was good. But now I am jetlagged.