Loncon: arrival
Aug. 14th, 2014 11:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylVery busy start to the day, with a quick swim first thing before a mad dash to St David's to catch the train to Paddington. Midway through my walk to the station, the heavens opened and I got completely soaked. Not the best start to my journey.
The train arrived in London more or less on time — there was a delay caused by a suicide attempt at Slough — and I got to ExCel in no time at all thanks to a combination of The jubilee line and DLR. Registration was pretty efficient and I was through the queue in less than half an hour, during which the weather I'd hoped I'd left behind me caught up and the was an astonishingly heavy thunderstorm.
I spent the afternoon pottering around, missing JB's panel in the process. One of the highlights of the afternoon was talking to a group of scientists from the Proxomics project doing outreach work, complete with a handful of small demonstrations of the sorts of things they were working on — including methods to manipulate cells using sound and laser light.
After pottering around for the afternoon I caught the DLR back to Stratford and switched to the Overground for Hampstead — an extremely efficient way of doing things — and got back in time to go out for tapas at a place in Belsize Park.
The train arrived in London more or less on time — there was a delay caused by a suicide attempt at Slough — and I got to ExCel in no time at all thanks to a combination of The jubilee line and DLR. Registration was pretty efficient and I was through the queue in less than half an hour, during which the weather I'd hoped I'd left behind me caught up and the was an astonishingly heavy thunderstorm.
I spent the afternoon pottering around, missing JB's panel in the process. One of the highlights of the afternoon was talking to a group of scientists from the Proxomics project doing outreach work, complete with a handful of small demonstrations of the sorts of things they were working on — including methods to manipulate cells using sound and laser light.
After pottering around for the afternoon I caught the DLR back to Stratford and switched to the Overground for Hampstead — an extremely efficient way of doing things — and got back in time to go out for tapas at a place in Belsize Park.
