Diamond

we went to Diamond light source to check out some of their beamlines and the MPL. Many exciting things going on there.

Afterward, it was back to Oxford, then on the bus to Heathrow where my flight was delayed an hour. Thankfully I was in the fabulous new Terminal 5, in which you can entertain yourself for hours with the shopping and restaurants. I had dinner at my favorite fast food place: Pret a Manger in the UK (maybe anywhere?), but kicked myself after seeing that there was a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. Oh well. I wandered around Harrods for a while, where I discovered that I had been a little naive about the prices of handbags. I did not know that it was possible to spend a thousand dollars on one. Also, no free wifi in the terminal as far as I could see. I also got a close look at an Audi R8 and a Lambo:


When I finally got to the lab car in the LYS parking lot, I discovered that the battery for the remote appeared to have died. I spent the next twenty minutes or so getting into the car and figuring out how to operate the ridiculous parking brake. I eventually made it home though, and before midnight.