The Yellow Brick Road

I'm finally back from my travels, and really, I promise that there will be an update about the trips soon!
Summary:
Maastrict = awesome;
Aachen = best espresso machine ever;
Heidleberg = okay;
Frankfurt = awesome;
Frankfurt Ironman = even awesomer;
Darmstadt = enh, but with a giant chess board;
Koln = cool;
science = tres cool.

There have been some very good conversations and lots of good ideas. Hopefully I'll be able to get some of them onto paper and then to the funding agencies (oh yes, that part will be so fun!). Not sure whether I'm behind the curtain or not, but we'll see.