Heidelburg

After our day trip to Karlsruhe, Vicki and I met up with Vikas Aggarwal (another former labmate of mine) and headed over to Heidelburg. When we arrived, we met up with my old friend Sandra Panienka and Vikas’s friend Stephanie Jungkunz. The city is incredibly beautiful. High up on the hilltop is the famous Heidelberg […]

Karlsruhe

After galavanting around England, Vicki Argyle and I headed off to Karlsruhe in Germany, where Frederik Klöwer (my ex-labmate) picked us up from the airport and took us to the “Institut für Anorganische Chemie der Universität Karlsruhe”, which is the inorganic chemistry department of Karlsruhe university. We got to meet Frederik’s lab mates, including Julia […]

The royal guards

And the prize for the busiest tourist attraction in London goes to … the changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace. I took the photo below by standing on my tippy toes, waving my camera held high and clicking away in the vain hope that I’d get a photo of something interesting. Vicki tried the […]

Brighton sunset

I travelled to Brighton in Southern England to visit my friend Kerry Perkins. There were lots of lobster coloured people on the beach, er stones. Nice place, but I’d recommend avoiding the fish ‘n’ chips, they’re a little nasty. Below is a nice photo taken from the Brighton pier at sunset. After hanging out in […]