Not a terribly exciting day I fear. Caught up on sleep, picked up some food for lunch and dinner, and headed up to the University of Liege on the bus. Since I had admin to sort out, and James had work to catch up on after spending the last weekend in Edinburgh (lucky sod), we settled in at the Geology department.
The university is situated outside the main town, in a heavily forested area. With autumn setting in it's beautiful, with the plain buildings tucked away amongst the yellow, orange, red, and brown leaves of the trees. James laughs at me as I happily jump into leaf piles and kick leaves around. I've always liked autumn!
Stopped for lunch, and got to raid the department's Nespresso machine - choice of 10 different capsules, all with different strengths. They take their coffee responsibly seriously here.
After we finished up at 17:00 (that's currently 18:00 for South Africans), we wandered downhill to the residence to cook an early dinner. Nice and full, we lounged around his room, sorting blog posts (me) and playing computer games (James), pretty much just as if we were home. Far too domestic. Forgot to mention they have a very interesting set of vending machines in the entryway: A soft-drinks one that also sells the local beer, a good coffee (and hot chocolate) one, and a . . . pizza one!
The residence has a bar that opens at 21:00, so we had some good Belgium beer. Something that's quite interesting here, is that they're awfully particular about having the correct glass for a particular beer. A bar will serve a beer in a glass with the beer's name on it, and are very apologetic if it isn't possible. James choice this evening has a very interesting one indeed.
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Although a second beer would have been nice, it would have meant us catching the last bus back (and maybe even missing it), so we aimed for the second last bus, caught it, and walked the last bit back to the hotel.
The university is situated outside the main town, in a heavily forested area. With autumn setting in it's beautiful, with the plain buildings tucked away amongst the yellow, orange, red, and brown leaves of the trees. James laughs at me as I happily jump into leaf piles and kick leaves around. I've always liked autumn!
Stopped for lunch, and got to raid the department's Nespresso machine - choice of 10 different capsules, all with different strengths. They take their coffee responsibly seriously here.
After we finished up at 17:00 (that's currently 18:00 for South Africans), we wandered downhill to the residence to cook an early dinner. Nice and full, we lounged around his room, sorting blog posts (me) and playing computer games (James), pretty much just as if we were home. Far too domestic. Forgot to mention they have a very interesting set of vending machines in the entryway: A soft-drinks one that also sells the local beer, a good coffee (and hot chocolate) one, and a . . . pizza one!
The residence has a bar that opens at 21:00, so we had some good Belgium beer. Something that's quite interesting here, is that they're awfully particular about having the correct glass for a particular beer. A bar will serve a beer in a glass with the beer's name on it, and are very apologetic if it isn't possible. James choice this evening has a very interesting one indeed.
Although a second beer would have been nice, it would have meant us catching the last bus back (and maybe even missing it), so we aimed for the second last bus, caught it, and walked the last bit back to the hotel.
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