Finally, I managed to put the photos from the trip to Canada online. The collection contains photos made by Christoph taken with his SLR (thx) and some shots I took with my digicam. The descriptions are very short, but I hope to be able to tell everyone of you more about the trip in a face-to-face setting.
After several days of heavy rain we experienced 2 days of sun in new brunswick. However, right now I'm sitting in a room without any windows attending a session at the Conference on Human Factors in Computing System (CHI) in Montreal. It's raining again in Montreal while the sun is shining in Salzburg (I hope that this is not the only sunny week this spring in Salzburg) However there are lots of interesting people here at the conference and before that I was cordially received in Montreal by Karin. We got to know at high school and she's now at the beginning of an incredible academic career in biochemistry.
We arrived yesterday in Halifax and the weather was rainy and stormy - typical scottish weather on Nova Scotia. Today we went to Peggy's Cove, a lovely small village with a harbour and a wonderful light house. We had sunshine for half an hour there but we learned what windchill means ;-) Now I'm sitting in Baddeck, appr. 400 km northeast from Peggy's Cove from where we start our trip round the Cabot Trail tomorrow morning. Life can be so nice.
Mild temperatures returned to Salzburg after nearly 6 months of snow. We used the sunshine to give my hammock from Costa Rica a try in the park of Hellbrunn Castle.
My team PSV Salzburg became champion in the volleyball league of the province of Salzburg, Austria. I have to admit I only played the last two games because of an injury last autumn and my trip to Costa Rica, but never mind. It's also not such a big deal because there are only four teams in this league (and two of them are PSV teams) but nevertheless it sounds good :)
I'm going to Canada by the end of April. Together with Wolfgang and Christoph I will be travelling round Nova Scotia and then from Halifax to Montreal. We will attend CHI 2006 and have a research in progress aka poster presentation there. *yipieh!*
