Conference week
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Since 2006  with only  a few exceptions  I was on  a conference  in the
first or the second week of  September. Often the conferences were held
near the sea. So there were days in air-conditioned rooms with evenings
near the sea, in pine forests and so on.

This  year is  of course  on of  the exceptions.  I have  not left  the
country at all  (except a short trip to Slovakia  in August). There has
been a lot of work related  to the starting semester at the university,
to the  activities related  to the previous  COVID-19 emergency  and to
preparations to the  one which is probably very  close (universities in
Prague are already closed and  universities in other parts are awaiting
similar  development).Thus  I managed  to  find  some time  in  Tuesday
afternoon for  a small  trip to  pine forest near  the water.  The pine
forests are  Central European  ones and  the water  was just  the local
water reservoir  (the Slezska  Harta in not-eastern  part of  the Czech
Republic). We (me  and my wife) also climbed the  Velky Roudny volcano.
The we  bought very good  ice cream in one  of nearby villages.  It was
very hot in Tuesday.  So we are able to feel like we  are near the Lake
Garda in Italy (well,  sort of, the hill is much  smaller, the lake was
not  natural and  Italian ice  cream is  something very  different...).

Still, it was a good emulation of one of post-conference afternoons.

I also made my ROOPLOCH post from that trip.



Written on the Cambridge Z88, edited with the Vim on the S.D.F.