July 26th –
Another bright and sunny day! Since this hotel doesn’t offer a yummy breakfast buffet, we wandered out to the local patisserie for coffee and pastries (because I’ve never met a breakfast worth 18 euros!) Then it was off to work for me! I worked out the details of the number 18 bus and got to the offices of Eurostat in time for my day’s worth of meetings. The folks I chatted with were wonderfully helpful and I learned a lot about how an international statistical agency works, how it’s different from a national statistical agency and how they do some of the things that we do.
Meanwhile, the family was out enjoying the sunshine and the city. It made it up to 26 degrees celsius – significantly warmer than we had in Scotland! They traipsed all over visiting museums, walking through the valley in the shadow of the fortified city and generally exploring. After I got done discussing database design and dissemination strategies, we all converged on the hotel to get ready for dinner.
Tonight’s repast was to be a bit more traditional. We wandered to Mousel’s Cantine for traditional unfiltered beer and pork products. Gillian had the kid’s schnitzel which was the size of Rhode Island; and Frank and I had two of the traditional pork dinners. Only Duncan had to be different: he had HORSE for dinner! He said it was delicious and didn’t get the jokes about eating Trigger! A bit more wandering through the city and then it was home to call it a night.
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[Pedometer: approx. 24,000 steps or 12 miles for the family – Frank forgot the pedometer for part of the day’s wanderings. I managed about 10,000 including much wandering about in the Eurostat building.]
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