Oxford

I was up at 4AM this morning to get to LYS for a flight to Heathrow. The roads were pretty bad and the plows were driving down the autoroute in pairs. Our flight took off on time, and landed with only one circle into Heathrow, but it was all a little dicey. I don't think I've ever seen an airport in that condition continue to operate (and I spend four years of flying through Chicago six times a year).

Ugly! The bus from Heathrow to Oxford got mired in traffic and ended up taking three hours instead of 1.5 Thankfully, it had free wifi on board! We made it into Oxford in time to check into the Royal Oxford (highly recommended) and have lunch at the conference/workshop. After a few talks, the traveling caught up to me though, and I started going through cycles of nodding off for a second followed by jerking awake. Thankfully, there was a coffee break where I loaded up on caffeine. The view from the new conference center is quite nice:

After the talks, Andrew and I headed to the Lamb and Flag for pints. At one point I looked up and saw a framed passage from 'Jude the Obscure' which mentions the pub! Dinner was very good back at the conference, but I was only semi-conscious.