Hi

Yesterday I finally manage to organise myself onto a sightseeing tour of Berlin. An Australian at the institute recommended this particular walking tour, and I'd been intending to do it for ages.

 Although the day was very average, a lot of people turned up for it (30, maybe), so there was no doubt we were

 tourists! To counteract this a little bit, I didn't take any photos. They would have all looked grey anyway. It was a pretty whirlwind tour so we didn't stop at any of the sights. The great tour guide, Kristin

, just pointed them out, and told us the stories about them. Hopefully I 

remember some of them, so I can retell them if you visit.

The pictures here are from the Belvedere castle which is just 5 minutes walk from my flat. The top one is the view from the top. To the left is on the way there, more autumn leaves, I'm afraid. At the bottom is another photo from the top of the castle, looking down at the water reservoir. Last time I visited (and forgot my camera), this was full of water and there were very cool reflections going on. They probably empty it for winter, I'm guessing.

In other news, I've been working pretty hard, had a time course experiment to do on Monday - I had to take and analyse a sample every 4h for 24, so I didn't get much sleep (2h between 2am and 6am) . I started work at 8.30am Monday, and finished at about 3.30pm Tuesday (when I started falling asleep in a statistics lecture, I'm not so sure this was completely due to the sleep deprivation). It wasn't actually too bad, and I got all the samples I need for a while.

Hope you are all well.

Adam