4th October Amsterdam

 ** For the first time in 11 weeks of travelling I have woken feeling a bit under the weather. So definately bundling up, drinking lots of liquids, and looking after myself. No museums, no long walks and definately no side tracking.

** Apparently Melody has arrived in CDG Paris around 8:30 and Marie's mother, Catherine, is meeting her at the airport and taking her up to the flat in Paris, which is so nice of her. 

** Today, in 1957, a seminal event occured that was to forever change the world. A 58cm diameter aluminium ball shaped object was launched into space by the now defunct USSR. The United States awoke to discover that a small beeping object, named Sputnik,  was passing overhead and there was nothing they could do. Why is this event seminal? Because 10 years later, after much research, the Internet was created, to ensure that if weapons could also be sent into space that were able to rain down on strategic areas in the US, lines of defense communication would not be disrupted . 

** And because it is Nobel prize week,

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2022 to

Alain Aspect

Université Paris-Saclay and

École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France

John F. Clauser

J.F. Clauser & Assoc., Walnut Creek, CA, USA

Anton Zeilinger

University of Vienna, Austria

“for experiments with entangled photons, establishing the violation of Bell inequalities and pioneering quantum information science”