Thursday, 30 April 2009

Eating Pegasus

No, it's not miss-spelled: that's what my people from my lab can eat for a week once a year. Here's the story: every year we organise a training for scientists from all over the world - and we take them to a restaurant for lunch. The menu was translated by a colleague for this occasion (it is always the same) and shows an item called "Pegasus filet". I was the only one who thought it was suspicious and I asked the waiter (the others ordered it without thinking). It turns out that a new "substitute" fish for tuna(?), called pangasius is on the menu...quite nice, I have to admit.

Anyhow, since years, the translated menu is not corrected. And people keep ordering Pegasus filet. They don't even think. I wonder if they actually ever heard about Pegasus. And this is a university. These are my educated colleagues .

Thursday, 16 April 2009

Where have we been?

Here is s pic of what we've climbed just a few days ago (it is not our photo as we only came back yesterday evening, but there'll be some soon, I promise)


a hint to help you guess: the capital (not of the country but of the autonomous territory) is named after a herbal plant (also a spice). If you can't guess I'll give you some more clues (and photos) soon! ;)

just a quick one

I found this today and I love it!