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Wireless prevails once more! Another end to a busy week at the lab. This week has been dedicated to the nuturing and sampling of bacterial batch cultures happily growing away in the 37 degree incubators. The creatures grow, but in fashions most strange.

The lab life is pretty hectic when you got several experiments running in parallel with most of them time dependent - in the heat we've been having up here the sterile work is a pain, demanding much fire to torch the insidious air. Can't let the microbes in, can't let the microbes out, it's a very odd affair.
Anyway, here are some pictures for your general amusement, I'll try to compile a reasonably interesting album on my multiply site later...

The only way into the town of Juelich, a gas powered, independently owned rail service that Deutsche Bahn grudgingly accomodates on a grass covered ridge of its Dueren station. We ride the line to the Research Centre every morning, fairly decent service but with a touch of the arbitrary about it.

The Hexenturm (Witch Tower or something of that sort). Bombed out during the war, the main gate still stands. On the left, an art gallery has emerged and on the right a guesthouse. The inside is quite interesting, little niches with narrow windows decorate the walls, probably where the Dread Witches of Julicum hurled spells at the invading forces of the day.

Pancakes. Cooking is a little side project of this internship experience. No fast food junkie am I! The pancakes of course, hardly describe the breadth of the culinary experimentation happening. Muahaha.

Must dash, the kangaroo's out again.