At Geneva Airport

Am blogging from Geneva Airport, waiting to board my flight which is scheduled to leave in half hour. I chose a window seat so that I could have a sky-view of cities while I took-off and touched-down. Barcelona was sunny today, and the view of the coastline along Catalina was brilliant. And Geneva is very green, I have read a lot about the Swiss pastures and the Alps and wish to do a 2-week trip to Switzerland sometime. The aerial view of Switzerland is certainly very elegant.

Yesterday was a busy day, spent entirely at the conference venue. Met some folks I knew before: Jason, Byrav, some from INRIA whom I had met in Lyon last year, and got introduced to some new people as well.

Has a nice full-course Spanish dinner sponsored by Ciena, the desert of mouse cake was particularly nice.

Barcelona has a lot of vending machines. While returning back to hotel with Jason, he drew my attention to a book vending machine at Maria Cristina metro station. He remarked “That’s the first book vending machine I have seen in my life”.

I have caught a cold now, having underestimated the Barcelona weather for the last three days, I believed April would be warm here.

Geneva airport offers excellent duty free shopping, particularly for Swiss chocolates, I intend to buy some on my return trip.