Back from the UK

So the quick-ish trip to the UK is over. Taking the bus from Canterbury to Oxford to Utrecht is perhaps not the quickest of routes, and means you don't get much sleep in the two days that you spread the journey over. Anyway, Oxford was still pretty much the same except for the fact that smoking is banned pretty much everywhere (good) and that I finally managed to run into the animal rights activists. The latter (about twenty people) take up position opposite of the building site (3m high walls, fortified) of a new lab every thursday and, whatched by police, stand there, occasionally chanting and mostly trying to peddle flyers to people who aren't interested whilst reading from experiment reports to people who aren't interested. Bonus points for preseverance, though serious deductions for making the whole movement look ab-so-lutely pathetic. That, combined with the result of a law case, has classified them as 'mostly harmless, although they can sometimes get a bit loud' by the locals.

Meanwhile, back in Utrecht: the project I hope to work on is being tweaked a little, a process that I get to have influence on. With the UU computer system now showing me that apparently I passed my Master's (I think the terminology can still be tweaked), things are getting underway. More later.