Summer, at least for one day :D

Oh, I  missed it so much!!! :D

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Ulbjerg Cliff

Excellent afternoon trip to Ulbjerg Klint (20km North from Viborg).
Denmark is not that flat after all :-)

On a side note, I am afraid that drTBBE needs a visit to an eye specialists. My concerns are related to a "path" down from the "cliff" top to the beach, that drTBBE saw. My discrete suggestions (=walk away in the opposite direction) that what he saw was not a "path" because paths are at least a foot wide and do not vanish after 2m were completely ignored. In result our walk included a very joyful slide from the "cliff" (see the marks on the sand in the image below, drTBBE is mimicking a scale(mirrored "S")). Not something to recommend after rain ;-)

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Ribe and Mandø

Our weekend trip to South West Denmark turned out much nicer than we expected :-)
We started with a visit to Esbjerg that was all right, but looking like plenty of other Danish towns. The four men on the beach are worth a (very short, if it is windy) visit:

In the afternoon we headed towards Mandø, an island in the Danish Wadden Sea, reachable by road only at low tide. The drive to the island and the island itself are simply beautiful !!

Ribe, the oldest town in Denmark, is the most beautiful town that I have so far seen in this country. It must be even more picturesque when all trees become green and flowers are blooming... Narrow streets, old charm full buildings, small cafes behind every second corner... 

and a Viking Museum with a Viking Market:

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Return to Budapest

This time with my Mum and Brother :-)
Excellent company, great city, delicious food and incredible weather (10C more than in DK or PL at that time).

Any idea how that something (a thermometer?) works?

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Defended!

I must admit, because I did not know what to expect, I was expecting the worst: a sequence of questions pointing into weaknesses of my PhD work. And instead I got a very constructive discussion about both, the strong and the weak parts. Plus a very positive atmosphere and a couple of jokes! And the after defence discussion was even better!

Summa summarum - a very enjoyable day !!!

And the feeling of having the 3.5 years process completed - priceless... :D

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far too serious post

While drTBBE is snowboarding in Georgia with a group of his good old friends I suddenly have so much time for myself ;-)
Until yesterday most of this time I have spent on preparations for the defence - Incredible how difficult it is to go back to own work after 3 months of not thinking about it! - but yesterday's very sad news:
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completely distracted my attention and made me thinking hard about serious things...
So far I have been a very lucky and happy person: relatively healthy, loving and  being loved, enjoying what I do at work. But somehow I feel like the time is passing by between my fingers... And it is not scary that I do not know what I will be like, where and what I will be doing in, let't say, 5 years. But it is terrifying that I do not know what I want to be like and what I want to do in 5 years...

The two Polish climbers died while realizing their dreams...
I guess it is time for changes because I do not even  have a dream...


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Krakow

It was so good to be back to Krakow again. We stayed there for a little bit more than 2 days but used every single minute of the time :-) It was great to see good old Friends again (and their kids, some for the first time), wander around streets full of small caffes and pubs.... Excellent time!!!

We highly recommend visiting the Rynek Underground museum placed underground the Main Square and presenting the history of Krakow with a lot of cool installations and visualizations. I promise, you will not be bored there!

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