Today was the last day of the workshop titled 'Sensing a Changing World' which I came to attend at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. The Workshop had started on 19th Nov and my presentation was on the first day itself. I was presenting on Fieldservers and I hope I have generated some interest on these devices in this part of the world. There was a technical excursion today to Northern Netherlands where the Dutch are deploying a large scale and unique antenna array called LOFAR for radio astronomy. Their idea is to make it low-cost and easily deployable using small sized phased array antennas instead of the tradional large parabolic ones which were the norm. With the end of the workshop, I have left behind at Wageningen a small beautiful city with cobble-stoned streets and small brick houses with sloped tiled roofs. They remind of the small alleys in Bhaktapur and Patan back home. If there was a large temple at the town center instead of the church with a bell-tower, Wageningen would quite be similar to an old town in Kathmandu Valley.

I am now leaving the Netherlands behind on a train to Duisburg in Germany. The train has run 40 minutes late due to the bad weather and unexpected snow today. I hope I do not miss the connecting train. My tickets are for the last trains out of that city and I don't quite relish the prospect of having to spend a cold night in the train station.

I intend to see some cities in Germany before I move into Brugge in Belgium. I have to be back in the Netherlands on or before 29th Nov, when I have my return flight back. I have not seen Amsterdam yet, so I might as well come back to the Netherlands a day earlier and enjoy the (in)famous sights and sounds of the Dutch capital.