The flight from Munich to Dresden was in a CRJ 700 and I met another conferernce attendee on the way and we managed to negotiate the railway from the airport to Dresden main station safely and then just managed to buy our tickest for the expressi to Freiberg in time to catch the train with less than one minute to spare. So on a very grey Sunday afternoon we arrived in a very wet and rainy Freiberg. There were 5 other people waiting for THE taxi on duty but when it came we found we were all going to the same conference but different hotels but we fitted 7 people and bags on board and off we went.
I am stayin in my usual place heet the Hotel Am Obermarkt - pretty central, comfortable and cheap enough with a great buffet breakfast and good staff. Soon enough I was off on the 20 minute stroll to the Univeristy (in the rain) for the registraion and reception for the conference. Lots of old mates around and a few drinks and sandwiches and suddenly it was time to be back in bed - I was tired I decided!
Yesterday (Monday) I was away early to meet more old chums before speaking in the opening plenary session of the meeting.
Today (Tuesday) I have been chairing a session all day on the uranium mining renaissance and this evening I willbe at teh poster session - again with old mates and a few drinks and sandwiches....
Tomorrow more old mates will be around when we have our special meeting of UMREG (the Uranium Mining & Remediation Exchange Group). It will be good to catch up with so many old friends from the industry.
Another year for the travelling and ageing mining and environment adviser
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