It's still all happening

Adam rang today from the departure lounge of Sydney airport where he and Monica were waiting to fly to Berlin via KL and Amsterdam. He is delivering a paper in Potsdam and, afterwards, they'll be staying in Berlin with members of the "Skipping Girls", a performance art group that Monica was involved in a few years back. Potsdam is where Count Zeppelin invented the airship in 1910.





Then it's on to Paris for a couple of weeks. Adam reckons he'll be working on his thesis but I fear there may be distractions. The pics above show the interior of the Paris flat and where they've been living in Sydney so that they could save money for the trip. Adam's uni is, at least, paying his airfares. He's promised to blog regularly.
Annika dropped in tonight (Sunday) and only has a take-home exam and a proper exam to go to finish her undergraduate degree. She has applied to do Honours next year in politics and looks like being accepted. We have two tickets to the Augie March/Ukuladies gig in Melbourne next weekend and she and Julia will be going. Not much news from Amanda but it's mid-tour and she's probably resting up for four nights in a row.
Nick is having his 21st in Newcastle on December 21. You'll all be invited but we understand you can't all come. You'll have a chance to pat him on the back up in Lismore. Dom is going for his L plate test tomorrow which adds a new dimention to the expression "road safety".
I've been invited to the presentation of the NZ motorcycle awards this year at the end of November and Jules and I will get three days there. Apparently there's a coast-to-coast walk across the Auckland Isthmus (16 kilometres) which is on the agenda along with a ferry trip to an island with a vineyard on it owned by relatives of friends here in Melbourne. Should be a nice break. In the meantime, lots of marking and a stress-inducing conference where I have to talk about my own thesis. Hmm.. maybe I should get back to work on that.