For any of you who heard about the massive European storm today, we’re not among the 11 dead (and counting). The winds were somewhat frightening at points, though, and apparently all buses and trains from Cambridge to London were canceled. Our friend Jurgen who is visiting (a Belgian doing a Master’s at UW-Madison, but applying for his Ph.D. at Cambridge next year) couldn’t make it out of town today so he’s crashing with us tonight. Hopefully he will be able to make it from Cambridge to London to Brussels in time for his Chicago flight (yikes!) tomorrow.
On an different note, in case you’ve been wondering (and I know you have) a bit more about where we live and work here:
You can also play around with the neighborhood by clicking the image above to go to the UK Google Maps site. It’s about a 35-40 minute walk to the other side of town (we did so tonight to meet some folks from the computing lab at The Free Press pub for beer and conversation). All this walking is good, though we will get some bikes soon. And none too soon. I need new shoes. I’ve developed some nice callouses and blisters over the last week…