...Belgium. Yes, Lydia and I are going to be Australian-Belgians.Ik heb zojuist geworden hoogleraar immunologie aan het Vlaams Instituut voor Bio…

Actually one hour and ten minutes in if you count the wait in immigration, but it only took ten minutes to overhear the booming voice of a woman…

I'm used to being treated as suspicious scum by American immigration officials, on the assumption that I either hate the country and am a thre…

Yesterday Michelle and I skipped out of the conference early to go port tasting on the south side of the river (Gaia).The origin for Port lies in a…

This talk yesterday was so bad. It was billed as "mathematical modelling of in vivo dynamics of CD4+ and CD8+ Foxp3+ regulatory T cells". …

The opening session of the conference was extremely painful - the conference chair decided to do a stand up comedy routine, with sad old …

It was so much fun to be able to catch up with Michelle again. Odd to think that it has been years since we went to the Middle East t…

It is interesting just how much Porto looks like the old town of Guayaquil. I guess more correctly, Guayaquil looks like Porto, since the c…

Yesterday I caught the train from Amsterdam to Luxembourg City, a long train trip that crossed the breadth of Belgium and took over…

Normally I couldn't care less (or even notice) what people wear, but I now have a new rule. European men shouldn't try to imitate American fashion. T…

This morning was my last morning with Lydia for a week or so, as she has to head back to work while I have a conference starting Wednesday.…

If Paris is style, Amsterdam is cool. And not cool in the high school manner of the kid who gets into trouble and bullies others around, bu…

Before I left I told people that I had an open mind, but Belgium would have to do something seriously impressive to get over the line. In Montre…

Before Flemish was recognised as an official language in Belgium, French was culturally dominant in education, politics and society. The back-la…

Belgium is an interesting country. Walloon, Flanders and Brussels are all so different. Ghent (in Flanders) is gorgeous, the research ins…

The pleasure of being in Europe, when our flight (from Seattle to Brussels) has a five hour stop-over in Copenhagen, we get hours to wa…

Flying from Seattle to Montreal, as Lydia and I consider leaving the United States, with its guns, extremist religion and broken social and political…

For the last three days we have been in London. The last job interview for me, and the final destination to research for Lydia. London is immedi…

The last two days have been in Ireland. We flew into Dublin on Thursday night and spent Friday in Maynooth and Saturday in Dublin…

Today was a disaster! We had the morning to see Brussels, and then in the afternoon I was to interview at the Free University of Brussels (Belgian un…

Waking up in Ghent, we decided to take advantage of the biggest benefit of living in Belgium - the ability to zip around Europe by train. Lydia decid…

With the morning in Blankenberge, we spent the evening in Brugge, a gorgeous city in western Flanders. The entire city centre is World Herita…

I've never been to terminal five of Heathrow before (always being redirected during teething troubles), but it surprisingly nice. We flew from Montre…

We have just had three days in Montreal, just as a test run for a possible move, since they have already given me an offer. The salary is good and …