It has been a good start to my two month sabbatical in Vienna.\u00a0 Georg Gartner and his\u00a0 team at the Technical University (TU) Wien Cartography department have been most welcoming, and my apartment (rented on the viewing of web-site photos alone) is gemutlich.\u00a0 It is great to be staying in one of my favourite cities.<\/p>\n
I remember watching the 2006 World Cup final in a bar in Vienna full of excited Italians.\u00a0 By contrast, the Liverpool-Newcastle game was dull fare earlier this week: Flanagan\u2019s was still smoky (I\u2019d forgotten what watching a game in a bar where smoking is still allowed is like), but the capitulation of the Toon was no excitement for the (extremely small number of) black and whites.\u00a0 From the ridiculous to the sublime, the walk back home took me past the final aria of that night\u2019s Opera performance, being beamed live from inside the Vienna Opera House to a sizeable crowd outside.<\/p>\n
Included in that crowd I spotted Prof Ana-Maria Coutinho, opera buff and cartography academic from Rio de Janeiro (also vice director of the forthcoming International Cartographic Conference in Brazil in August).\u00a0 I caught up with her later in the week when she visited the department at the TU.\u00a0 We had a good chat about the joint ICA Commission on Education &Training\/Commission on Maps & the Internet workshop which I am co-organising in Curitiba, before the main event in Rio.<\/p>\n
I have been able to put the finishing touches to my presentations for next week in the US, and also finalised some proposals in liaison with the Newcastle archaeologists.\u00a0 And the texts for the Rio proceedings are due this month \u2013 my solo one already in, the paper by Kaizer, Phil and myself just about ready to go.<\/p>\n
Auf wiedersehen \u2026<\/p>\n
Dr David Fairbairn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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