After teaching an early class, I went off to Luxembourg: on the train as far as Saarbrücken and then on a (rather luxurious and well air-conditioned) bus to Luxembourg City.

I didn't really get a feeling for the city of Saarbrücken (the bus / train station is seldom representative) but following the river (the Saar?) toward Lux you can see that the area is really industrial, but with these green rolling hills too. It was really quite striking.

Anyway, got there, found my hotel and checked in. Met up with Mr Powell, who had arrived earlier, and we had a look around town. Rather nice, it was, as was the beer.

The others mostly all arrived about 9 and we all had something to eat and then K chose a really dodgy pub/knocking shop where A asked for gin and tonic but only got tonic in then end because they had no gin.....it transpired.

Good to be here.