Heavy Morning Session

The session this morning was really heavy. At least for me. By the time I was ready for lunch, my head was ready to explode. The lure of just chilling out was just too much. So, we decided to go out for lunch.

We ended up at a restaurant just around the corner from the Congress Hall. Italian again, but a nice prim restaurant, a bit different from yesterday's cafe. But with a typical family run clinic, the service was slow. We had the time to plan what to do for the rest of the day, as well the plan of escape for tomorrow.

For now, let's enjoy the lunch ....

Sound of Music

The hotel we stayed was right on top of a hill and there were limited bus service coming down. One every hour I think, with the final trip from town leaving at 7 bearing in mind, sunset would be at 9.30.

Since I decided to leave late, I took the public bus down into town. It was actually a nice drive through the lush greenary. And there were plenty of people just chilling out in the sun. I was wondering what they were doing with their time. Or was it just part of their summer ritual. Everybody taking it easy.

I wished that I could just leave the bus and tumble on the green grass just outside the bus window. Listening to Sound of Music in the background of course.

Nice sunny weather, with cool breeze on tow. You can't beat that ......

The Second Morning

I decided to leave a bit later for the second morning as the transfer was too early for my liking. I therefore had a nice breakfast, and did a bit of surfing before taking the ride down.

The weather seemed a bit colder this morning. Possibly it would be raining as well. So, planning to stay indoors as much as we could although the town centre was just too picturesque for somebody like me. Maybe I would do an impromptu photowalk during lunch. Even the McDonald's here looked photogenic.

As for this morning, it was time to walk downhill to the bus stop. Lets see how the public transport work here ..... in Switzerland.

Please Feed Me

Finding food to make everybody in the group happy proved to be a challenge. I was OK, as long as I can avoid meat and there were salad available. So, for lunch, even though I found the food to be good, a few of my colleagues felt otherwise.

For lunch, we didn't venture far. We had an Italian pasta by the Conference Hall, quite a posh one. Since the break was only for an hour, it made sense not to go far.

There would be a planery session right after lunch, and then I planned to go out for a quick excursion into town. To be back before the last session of the day.

I was distinctly pulled however towards the McDonald's just found the corner from the Conference Hall. First of all. It didn't look like a McDonald's. More like a posh restaurant actually. But, that would have to wait. Maybe I'll drop by there tomorrow.

I Need Coffee

The session started right on the dot, as you'd expect. I decided to listen to a myeloma talk even though this was a lymphoma meeting. the reason, the speakers were just too good. It was chaired by Vincent Rajkumar, and I wasn't going to miss that.

But I soon realised, I couldn't concentrate for too long. Easily dozing in and out of stupor. Time for some coffee then. Luckily there was a marquee set up by the pharmaceuticals just for that purpose. And the coffee here was in the better side. Not the best, but did the job of waking me up.