British Sea Power

The weekend kicked off to a lively start a few short hours after my flight landed, with a trip to The Dragoon pub in Brampton to watch Drunken Pilot, who were quite good musically, but also quite funny as well.
On Sunday British Sea Power played at The Junction in Cambridge. I came to know British Sea Power because they did a song about the Larsen B ice-shelf in Antarctica, which was one of our winter songs. They played a great set, including a mix of stuff that I knew and songs from their new album.

Czech It Out!

 I might not be in Antarctica any longer, but that's no excuse not to do fun stuff in fun places. I've spent this last week at Hradec Králové in the Czech Republic at a workshop organised by the World Meteorological Organization. The aim was for different countries to come together to discuss how to improve and re-evaluate the data collected from Dobson spectrophotometers. Dobsonmeters measure atmospheric ozone by looking at the difference in absorption of different wavelengths of UV light. The occurrence of severe ozone depletion (The Ozone Hole) over the South Pole was discovered by measurements from a Dobsonmeter at Halley Research Station in Antarctica.

We had a visit to the Czech Republic's Solar and Ozone Observatory, and a dinner and some talks from the Ministry For The Environment which were very interesting.

The town was very pretty and extremely well-provisioned with bars and restaurants, of which we fully availed ourselves. There was an excellent selection of traditional Czech food and the service was very good.
A few photos: