Only one month ago I travelled by car with a group of colleagues to Freiberg in eastern Germany. Freiberg is a tiny medieval town just West of Dresden. We weren't there for a holiday, rather for a course the details of which probably don't need to be too deeply gone into here except to say that it involved computers (as a lot of things do these days, even if one claims to be studying rocks the whole time).
I didn't do much looking round the town, to be honest. This was a combination of the freezing temperatures, driving snow, and pure laziness on my part. Unlike most Germans I never had to start school at 8am and I still cannot deal with waking up early. This means that when you make me start an intensive week long course every day at 8.30am by the time 5pm rolls around I am a little bit groggy, to say the least. Towards the end of the week my lazy PhD student physiology was slowly hammered into shape and on the very last evening in Freiberg I managed to brave the cold and frozen fingers in the early evening and get a few shots of the sleepy, picturesque town.
I did ask one of the demonstrators what there was to actually do in Freiberg for the students at his university, and the answer was basically: go elsewhere. Nonetheless it is a very charming place to spend a few days, knowing that one day you will leave again and dive back into the real world.
In my case the intrusion of the real world was pretty abrupt, as we travelled immediately from Freiberg to big, flat, dirty, noisy Berlin...
Anyhow, I bet you all want to get outside and enjoy the weather as much as I do, so here's the customary photo link, have fun! I repeat the now tradition plea to click the enlarge button to actually see the nice resolution photos.
Der Tom
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