My bicycling buddies and I are all physicists, with some additional culinary and sartorial interests. I wanted to capture some of the things that make this special. For example, above, I´m enjoying four different pieces of cake. The intense focus on baked goods during my trips is not unique, of course, but I blame it on my year working in a French bakery when I was younger.
S is a solar physicist, who uses data from satellites to study the sun. When we found one of those solar system models with the planets proportionally spread across a few kilometers of park land, she cycled back to the beginning to get a selfie with the sun.
N appreciates the finer things in life. He found this incredible German hatmaker at the top of a mountain, and convinced me to drop a ridiculous amount on this hat. I love it. I do actually wear sunhats every day in Madrid, so it will be used, and you can really see a different between this and my 5€ convenience store hat.
The guys really, really loved the extensive hotel breakfasts and occasionally sneaked out a "road sandwich", aka one for the road.
Emergency coding after a long ride.
Taken at the airport, before the trip began, discussing physics. N actually travelled with several physics textbooks. I didn´t ask, but I really hope they weren´t actually in his pannier the whole time.
6 comments:
Really love the hat! It’s a keeper!
Yep. Good decisions were made re hats.
On the solar system model, when you say they were proportionally laid out, meaning the actual proportional distance of the solar system?
And the pic pose of your friend with the breakfast take away sandwich looks like he is meditating. Meditating on a good European breakfast spread is a worthy target.
Yes, Uncle de-I, both the sizes of the sun/planet bodies and their distances to each other were proportional. Pluto was so far away from the rest of the solar system that we cycled about 10 minutes, thinking we had missed it.
So many good memories!
I love the hat! Maybe you won't get quite as much use out of it when you are visiting here. And where in Germany is that solar system, I think that is amazing!!!
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