http://gregorymulholland.com Cambridge, UK Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:22:33 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Like all of our travels so far, our first full day of Prague was full of walking. We started in the morning by trying to go to a coffee shop called Káva Káva Káva (Coffee Coffee Coffee in English). Their espresso machine was broken though, so they weren't really serving. ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/04/22/praha-our-first-full-day-20-apr-2008/ FFor Christmas, Kelly gave me a great present. She was planning a trip to Prague in the Czech Republic for us. Yesterday morning, we left Cambridge for Prague. We flew with SkyEurope, a Slovenian airline that was about the same price as Ryan Air, but was very easy to deal ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/04/22/praha/ I am cursed when it comes to traveling and using my debit card. Let me give you a few examples of some major trips where I have had trouble with this: Paris and the rest of EuropeWhen I studied in Spain over the summer of 2003, I was planning to meet ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/04/22/my-card-curse/ Easter morning was a snowy one. When Kelly and I left Wychfield, there was only barely a dusting. When we got to church, it was full-on snowing in Cambridge. We had a plan though, we had to make it to the Henley boat race. Our friend Stef is in the ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/03/31/the-henley-boat-race/ People here always talk about the one day of snow per year. Once a year the right combination of cold and rain finally comes together to make a white coating over everything. When this happens, the photographers of Cambridge flock outside to take pictures of the snow-covered King's Chapel, bikes, ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/03/31/snow-in-cambridge/ My trusty Nikon D70, which I bought for my first trip to Europe in 2004, may be on its last legs. I am really surprised at this because it less than 4 years old. I have only taken around 7,000 pictures with it. This, in digital camera terms, is not ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/03/30/camera-trouble/ Tonight, Kelly, Dominik (a guy from Kelly's lab), and I went to see Jesus' College Choir perform Bach's St. John Passion. It is basically the Jesus's Passion as told by the gospel of St. John set to music by Bach. It was a really great performance. Although it was certainly ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/03/20/st-john-passion-at-jesus-college/ Yesterday Kelly, Will, Jackie, and I went to London to see the famed Chinese Terracotta Army exhibit at the British Museum. We originally had planned a whole day to see the city after that, but we got so hung up in the rest of the museum that we ended up ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/03/09/london-the-british-museum-and-the-terracotta-army/ I am really not too good about posting regularly. Bumps was last week. I have described Bumps before and linked to the Wikipedia article, but neither of those can describe what it feels like to be there. Bumps is a set of races on the river Cam. It also consumes your ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/03/07/bumps/ I guess since I am here to do research, all my family and friends should know a little about what I do here in terms of research. Plainly, I work with semiconducting oxides. I know most of you know that I work with things that are trying to improve the efficiency ... http://gregorymulholland.com/2008/02/25/what-i-do-my-research/