E-Mails from Europe

July 6, Paris

Flowers in Westminster Abbey Courtyard

Hi, Everyone,

I°m now in Paris, just arrived 2 hours ago and my room was not ready. So I am at an Internet cafe 2 blocks away. Thanks to all who did, for your replies. I have lots of time today at this cafe which has about 12 computers packed into a little storefront. Most of the customers are teenage boys with a few foreigners like myself. The keyboard is different with the a, q, w, z, and m moved. I can°t find the apostrophe so am using the ° symbol; Alssso the s sticksss! I did find the ! !

There was no commercial Internet Cafe near my hotel in London and the Internet center at the conference always had a line. As most of you know, besides being a 4 week vacation, I attended the 8th International Congress on Medical Librarianship from June 30 to July 5. This is a pretty good tax deduction! I found the 5 plenary sessions interesting but did not attend every one of the 9, yes nine, contributed paper sessions. The ones I did were interesting and, for the ones I didn°t, the fulltext, with more details, is on the Web!

The London Eye

The Houses of Parliament

One morning I went to the Victoria and Albert Museum. The silver display hall was particularly interesting. I saw a piece of silver that I have from my ancestors but never knew hat it was. It is a Victorian eye glasses case with a clip for the waist, a chain, and a velvet lined case. It is too small for today°s glasses so that use never occured to me.

The conference hall was across the street from Westminster Abbey so I went there during lunch one day. With the conference, I went to the Royal Society of Medicine for dinner and the British Medical Association for lunch. Also a dinner cruise on the Thames. With a friend of mine from college, Deena, I went to the new Tate Modern which was a fantastic museum holding works of art done since 1900. Some people would put "art" in quotes when describing some of the installations.

Deena at the Tate Modern

Roz at the Tate Modern

Yesterday, I when to the British Museum and walked through Covent Garden, having dinner there which was a steak and kidney pudding; The waitress said it was "stodgy" with alot of "suet" but I ordered it anyway and it was good!

I°ve been at this a while due to the keyboard problems so will sign off for now. I°ll probably be able to get off another letter in Paris. I°m not sure about the Alps! Jim joins me on Sunday and we take the train to Chamonix on Monday.

Signing off; your virtual friend;

Roz

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Roz Dudden and Jim Mills
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