Finally getting round to posting about Stockholm (46th Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes, September 2010).

( Things you see )

( pictures at an exhibition of mountains )

( 桂林山水甲天下 )

( 千里江陵三日还 )

Finally getting round to posting pics of Paris, whittled down from several to just one dozen:

The city's most famous landmark, which, unfortunately I neither ascended nor took night photos of. Opposite it on the Champ de Mars was the Ecole Militaire, the backdrop to people strolling about, sunning themselves on the grass, eating ice cream and ( Read more... )

(Still unable to find pictures of the museum that Castel Sant'Angelo has become, alas, except for a shot of the castle and bridge across the Tiber of the same name.)

Visited the Musei Vaticani and Sistine Chapel the next day, which was a Sunday - hence the crush of tourists which eventually necessitated simply following arrows marked "Capella ( Read more... )

This September the 44th Meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) was held in Rome. I was fortunate to be sponsored to attend by a pharmaceutical company.

Having booked a conference-affiliated hotel near the Vatican, I started seeing Rome from within the walls of the walled city I arrived in Rome on a Saturday afternoon ( Read more... )

Nanjing is an ancient city with a long history, cycles of prosperity and disaster accompanying changes of name and reign all the way from Fu Chai, Qin Shihuang (who attempted to consolidate his rule by destroying the elemental harmony of the river and city;his plan didn't work) to Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty (who simply destroyed the city), Li ( Read more... )

...though to be strictly accurate our bus travelled in a more-or-less counterclockwise fashion from Hangzhou to Wuxi, with spring weather getting increasingly warmer as we approached Nanjing (where temperatures almost reached 30 degrees on account of it being surrounded by mountains on 3 sides with the river on the fourth reflecting back the ( Read more... )

Some weeks ago, I was browsing the travel pages of the classifieds for a tour that would coincide with a leave slot in May; an advertisement of a 9-day package for 'Jiangnan' (which apparently encompasses the Shanghai Municipality, the southern part of Jiangsu Province, the southern part of Anhui Province, the northern part of Jiangxi Province, and ( Read more... )