Vikas Aggarwal took Victoria Argyle and I to the Technik Museum Speyer in Germany. They had all sorts of different types of locomotion including trains, planes, automobiles and underwater submarines.
We got strapped to the side of a Boeing 747 and taken for a flight. It was quite blustery but I managed to snap the following pic just after takeoff.
When in the Black Forest, we all went photo crazy with lots of pictures to be taken of the beautiful scenery.
Vikas Aggarwaal took us to the Black Forest in south western Germany. The scenery made it feel like home 🙂 We took a short Gondola ride to the top of a ski field (summer season) and went on a scenic walk through the forest.
Our lab got renovated recently. It doesn’t look anything like this old school chemistry lab we saw at the Heidelberg castle though!
Here are some photos I found kicking around on my hard drive that I’d forgotten to upload to the web.
After our day trip to Karlsruhe, Vicki and I met up with Vikas == (another former labmate of mine) and headed over to Heidelberg. When we arrived, we met up with my old friend Sandra and Vikas’s friend Stephanie.
The city is incredibly beautiful. High up on the hilltop is the famous Heidelberg Castle which went to visit.
After galavanting around England, Vicki Argyle and I headed off to Karlsruhe in Germany, where Frederik (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 who is coming to Dunedin shortly. Frederik also took us on a tour of the city of Karlsruhe and taught me some highly useful German phrases such as ‘Willst du mich heiraten?’.
