So we start with a picture of the wonderful old campus of the Kungliga Tekniska Högskolan (KTH) in Stockholm

and me participating in my first “real” conference HSCC.

Part of the conference was a posh dinner in the hall of the Nobel Price Banquet in the “Stadshuset” in Stockholm. I think it will be hard to beat that again with another conference!

After the conference was over, I went out for dinner with Eva, Rebekah and Florian. By that time we didn’t know, that we will also spent the weekend together since we will all be stuck in Stockholm.

So I had time to try another crown picture… I think its better than the last one

I spent my weekend in this wonderful hostel called Castanea in Gamla Stan – to be recommended!

On Saturday, I also had time to take a long walk along the water

and back over the bridge..

After taking the night bus to Copenhagen, I waited for the train to Hamburg with all this people… I was surprised how they all fit into the train…

And after a 17hour journey I finally reached Berlin on late Sunday afternoon.

So the best thing I could think of, was going to the train station. And obviously many people had the same idea! It was so packed! I’ve never seen a train station so crowded…  So I got a number 271 – while they where serving number 30. OK, fair enough, I was prepared to wait. But after they served only 6 persons during one hour I got quite annoyed… So I decided to give up and try to book something over the Internet.

I was quite lucky and found a night bus for tonight, to bring me to Copenhagen. And from there the trains are going to the rest of Germany. All Swedish trains are booked out until Tuesday by now, and also going to Oslo to visit a friend was impossible, because there wasn’t any train seat available. And today I heard that even all rental cars are booked as well, not speaking about ferries…

So for now, I’m happy to have a ticket and socialized with other people from the conference who got stuck as well… Somehow a slightly different form of networking

Everybody should fika! Everywhere in the world! Not just in Sweden!

On Monday I will start to work as a research assistance in Berlin with Joerg Raisch and hopefully produce some useful staff to get a PhD degree somehow, sometime (probably not so soon ). So if you stick around our capital city during the next years, give me a call and I will be happy to host you

After I came back to Germany I was totally happy that all that snow was still there waiting for me.  So one of the first things I did was going cross country skiing with my mom over the fields around my hometown Erfurt. The sun was shining, we rarely met anybody and it was just very beautiful!

Unfortunately the snow started melting two days later, so I guess this was my only winter experience for this year