Goodbye Tuscany

I am about to leave Tuscany following a week of sciency conference. Bye bye 4 star hotel, copious amounts of food, and people from all over the world who know what I do for a living and, in most cases, understand it better than I do.

The conference ended early today, and stifling my stubborn case of the common cold, I took a walk down to Barga and back (up). I found myself some nice grappa so come along to Helsinki now, finnish friends (and others alike, if short on grappa), let's start the winter warm.

It was 24 degrees Celsius today, and I'm sitting outside typing this up even though it is eleven at night (the door to the conference room is locked but the wifi is left on and reaches at least this far). Bats are flying around and insects land on my screen. I hope the picture taken with my webcam gives you a feel for the place. Ciao - sniffing Stefe