I suppose this is my last post. Unless of course I end up doing something very German-orientated within the next week, which is highly unlikely. I am back home in London, as you can probably tell by the title. London is as overwhelmingly London as ever. It’s grey, menacing and outrageously expensive. It’s also home [...]

I’ve decided to write this week’s blog a day early.  Tomorrow I have to explain my work to my PhD student, so I don’t know how much time I’ll have for writing, while the day after I’m off to Berlin Schönefeld to catch the plane home.  Also writing this allows me to take a break [...]

This last week I didn’t do any travelling. Partially it was to give you, dear readers, a deeper and more incisive insight into life in a large and thriving German city, rather than producing just another travel based article, which is more or less what I and everyone else who writes for this blog seem [...]

As you can probably guess from the title I went to Strasbourg last weekend. Strasbourg is in the far east of France on the German border and very beautiful. It is also quite a distance from Dresden! To begin with this involved a five hour train journey from Dresden to Frankfurt. At Frankfurt I stopped [...]

As I said at the end of the last post a funny looking man arrived in my office and told me he was locking the laboratory, I thus failed to write anything about the more interesting part of my last fortnight here, namely Berlin. Berlin is unique really. If you arrive in Berlin try to [...]

Apologies for not writing last week but nothing of real note actually happened.  My brother visited me the weekend before last and we walked round Dresden and looked at stuff, and it rained constantly, and we had some rather nice lunches, and I introduced him to my favourite bar (Unfassbar in the Neustadt), which he [...]

It’s Thursday afternoon back in Dresden, and my experiments are finally beginning to give results (although not particularly good ones yet!). The sun is shining and I rode into work today on my bike (the journey took three quarters of an hour and was annoyingly hot). I got back from the Rise meeting in Heidelberg [...]

Apologies for the somewhat sub-par blog which I produced last week. Since then I have got to see more of Dresden besides the tram-routes and am very impressed by it all. As I said, I am living out in east Dresden at the end of tram line 4. Our house is right by the river [...]

I’ve finally arrived at my placement, which means that from now on my blogs should actually have something relevant to say. Dresden is a beautiful city on the Elbe with a population of 350 000 (I was told this by a man outside a pub so I may be wrong), and I am working at [...]

I’m writing this blog from an internet cafe in Amsterdam, having just returned from 2 days in Germany, alas I have as yet failed to make it as far as Dresden, where I have my placement, due to some truely woeful lack of checking my e-mails, but I’ve at least made it to the Fatherland, [...]