Just a week after the Paris trip, I attended a conference in Bonn for work. It was a useful conference, although the quality of papers presented was quite uneven. Still, I received useful feedback on my presentation and was able to meet several established researchers in the area.
The conference finished with lunch on Friday, so LBJ's parents offered to take the girls for the weekend. So LBJ arrived around 4pm or so and we had a lovely weekend in Cologne (i.e Koln - sorry I can't figure out how to put dots over the o).
Although it was strange not to have the kids around, we managed to enjoy the weekend. We met up with a local whom I know for a drink after work at an "old man pub" in Cologne, where we had a couple of mini beers of Kolsch, the local beer. The waiters were very grumpy (part of the charm of the place).
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| The church is so big it can't fit in the picture! |
We enjoyed the sights of the town such as the famous cathedral. We did an hour boat cruise on the Rhine. We saw the Roman museum (which was huge). We enjoyed several good meals, including one in a restaurant for locals with no English menu.
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| View from the river |
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| Our boat |
Alas, the weather was lousy in Dublin and the girls had colds, so they did not have the best time without us. So I'm not sure we'll get another weekend away any time soon.
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| Quality German sausage! |
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| The street with our hotel |
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| Roman ruins |
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