So Tuesday I went and presented and chatted at the MRC IHR - it went great! The rest of Nottingham got a  bit sillier...

We went to Lincoln and met Jeanne! We climbed some ridiculously steep hills to get there. 

Dave (plus his ridiculous hair) joined us from London as well.

This is from the inside of the cathedral there. The place was packed because of graduation ceremonies - lame! This cathedral is in incredibly good condition, takes more than 1m pounds per year to keep it in that shape. 

Ick, look at all these graduates! We missed out on a roof-top tour because of them... 

The weather in England was terrible. This went from blue skies to an actual river forming in the street in 5 minutes flat.

This is the chapel from an old women's prison - they practiced segregation here, each prisoner was kept in solitary confinement pretty much constantly. At the chapel, they could only see the guy giving the sermon - and had to wear those leather masks you see in the back to and from, so no one could recognise another. This was a pretty heavy place.

The same cathedral from afar! Check out that weather...

Here we said goodbye to Jeanne - thanks again for meeting up with us - we had a great time, very excited to see you again later this year.

We rented a car - it was supposed to be a VW polo, but we got a Peugot 308 diesel. Pretty nice!!

We took ourselves a little less seriously.

M O - for the Major Oak we visited below...

Here we are, the oak is crazy old, so old it needs supports???

Here, we went Segwaying around Sherwood forest. Seriously. Segwaying. Sherwood forest. See those off road tires? It was pretty serious terrain! This was way, way, way, WAY more fun than it should have been.

Dave looks like this is his morning commute...

The forest was beautiful - this is me illegally taking a photo with one hand off the segway bars - I'm slightly amazed I didn't suffer a serious injury. I did manage to break it... but it got better...

 

Back on the train! This is after our 1 (+1 hour timezone) hour flight from Nottingham to Brussels, from which we needed to take the train to Amsterdam. 

Aw yeah.

Amsterdam seems pretty snazz.

There are so many people/tourists here though.

This might not seem like much, but after 4 days of being wet in the UK, plus the rain in Brussels - blue skies!!!!!11 (Also a jet contrail) 

I thought this was a cool old building but it turned out to be a shopping mall. bummer...

So Lex and Dave arrive tomorrow, and we'll see what Amsterdam has to offer!!11