Elba, September 2008, taking in the view of the harbour at Porto Ferraio, the capital of this small island, while John was at the meeting on future ground based solar system research.
Amsterdam, September 2008.
Paris, Jul 2008, taking a look at the Seine en route to the OPTICON executive meeting. John was stoping off to buy an Ariane 5 model kit which he wants to build for PR purposes.
March 2008. At the Portuguese Air Museum at Alverca, north of Lisbon. In between this, the outstation at Sintra and the outstation at Ovar I saw nothing of Portugal except Air museums and trains.
November 2007. Called in at the Observatory in Leiden, Netherlands
At the Aristarchos Observatory in Southern Greece
October 2007. In Athens after the OPTICON telescope directors meeting
Another trip to Brussels. This is the cathedral.
May 2007. At El Escorial, near Madrid, for the NUVA conference on UV astronomy. Had a tour of the Monastery which was a fantastic couple of hours.
May 2007. A vist to Hungary gave another chance to visit the castle and view the other half of the city across the Danube river....
... and to visit the fabulous Aircraft Museum at Szolnok. Here I am on the nose of a wrecked Mil helicopter in the museum graveyard. A HUGE thanks to Sándor Hajnal who helped set up John's visit and spent most of the day with us at the museum.
March 2007. In venice again, this time for the OPTICON Executive Meeting. Not much time for sight seeing today.
April 2007. From Vienna we flew to Amsterdam, and then went to the Westerborg radio telescope array near Dwingeloo.
April 2007 As part of the OPTICON 3 capitals in 4 days tour, I had 36 hours in Vienna while John was talking to the Austrian National Astronomy meeting. This is the imperial palace.
April 2007. In Paris with a few hours spare between meetings so we went to the Air and Space Museum to check out the planes and rockets. Apart from an extra Concorde, not much has changed since last time.
February 2007. Heidelberg for the EII meeting.
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John Keith Davies
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