Done!

It feels goooooooood!

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Last days of Autumn

Last weekend we had a long awaited visitor :-) I was great to spend the last days of Autumn in such a good company - thanks Lo!

P.S. It has been snowing all day long today...

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Autumn...

Wine can help to stay in a good mood with the grayness outside and shorter days. Buying enlarged wine bottles can make you even happier and it still counts as one :)

 

 

 

 

 

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A letter from the frustrated author of a journal paper

Have a look here:

When Publishing Gets Tough

I simply love the second last paragraph... :D

P.S. Read the comments below the letter too :-)

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Getting ready for the "after PhD life"

+ about 20 books in my Kindle :D

I cannot wait to start reading....

 

 

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time to finish...

Even Microsoft Office reminds me that my PhD project lasts for too long...

Time to finish... ;-)


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6 croissants in one small can

How did they fit all six of them in such small can?

 

 

 

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Long time no blogging

Hours are short these days. 4 weeks left to the end of my PhD project and I haven't started writing the thesis yet. Other writing is good though... may the force and motivation stay with me!!!

 

 

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Our Ozzie adventure, part 1: The ISPRS Congress 2012, Melbourne

After 37h trip Australia welcomed us with beautiful sunshine and a good atmosphere. A shower made the trick and we were fresh and almost full of energy for sightseeing... At least until the afternoon ;)

Anyway, we took a walking tour around the city and visited the State parliament. For some reason Melbourne seemed to us a bit like a city in the USA, just with narrower streets and better food ;)

Me and drTBBE attended (different) pre-conference workshops. Good stuff, though organization should be improved.

The conference started with a welcome reception that was made more attractive with a possibility to see and touch some of the native animals. There was a koala to cuddle, a python,a crocodile and some kind of a rat(?)... Nice, even if I am not a fan of these kind of entertainments. The animals looked relatively relaxed....

Attending the congress was good. The first such large conference for us (~1300 people) and to be honest I think I prefer smaller meetings. Several good presentations, some good talks and discussions with the exhibitors and networking. It was also good to catch up with some "Good old" friends from our universities or previous conferences :)

Several photos from the evenings in Melbourne:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Our holiday in Australia described with a single image

 

 

 

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Leaving to Melbourne in 24h

And here we go: in 24 hours we will be leaving to Australia!
The last days were pretty stressful (e.g. I thought I lost my passport, that we luckily found back in one of the suitcases) and full of work. The first attempts co close our luggage were very promising so most probably we have forgotten something ;-)
Anyway, first we will attend some pre-conference workshops, then the ISPRS Congress itself and on the 30th of August I need to present about 5 months of work in 20 minutes. And on the 1st of  September we will officially start our 2 weeks holidays!!!! Yeeeey!!!
Almost 3 weeks without staring at the computer/laptop screen!!! Yeeey, yyeeey yeeey!!!!



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11 weeks left

Ok, 11 weeks of work left to deliver my PhD dissertation. It seems very short considering the amount of work left, but I am glad that it is that short. I want to work from 8.00 to 16.00 again and have time for planning our holidays and weekend trips, for reading fantasy books, watching movies... Ehhh, the last months were too full of work and even if I like what I do... I am veeeeery tired...

The good news is: in two weeks me and drTBBE take off to Melbourne for a conference and stay there for two weeks holidays afterwards :D

But I have still 2 weeks to go, I better go back to work now...


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Aarhus

On the Pentacost Monday Aarhus, the second largest city in DK, was completely empty... 

We need to go back there to check out if the night life, so much recommended in guide books, is at least partially true...




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Denmark's highest point

Our first (and hopefully not the last) summer weekend we spent with two very nice people Paul and Kasia, travelling around to get a better taste of Danish nature :D

Viking Center in Fyrkat:

 

And we also visited the highest and the third high point in Denmark!!!

Ejer Baunehøj the highest (almost) natural (not the tower :-)) point in Denmark, 170.89 m above sea level!!! 

Until 1847 people thought that Himmelbjerget (147m, image below) was the highest point in Denmark. At that time Ejer Baunehøj was declared to be higher, and in 1874 it was measured to be 170.95m a.s.l. Nevertheless in the middle of the 1900's, Yding Skovhøj, only 3 km away, was declared to be even higher. In 1953 the Danish authorities finally decided  that a burial mound on Yding Skovhøj from the bronze age didn't count :-) That reduced Yding Skovhøj height to only 170.89 m  (6 cm less than Ejer Baunehøj!). 

Finally in 2005 Denmark’s National Geographical Survey determined that Denmark’s highest point (170.86m) is .... located only 200m west of Ejer Bavnehøj on an ordinary field belonging to a farmer. There is only a minor slope between the two tops and according to the international principle of primary factors they are defined as one complete top.

Anyway, the third highest top, Himmelbjerget (below), is much nicer to visit and it somehow feels much higher than its 147m :-)

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