The Hotel that is my room was busy this week.

This weekend and this week brought two consecutive guests from the Netherlands and a booking for next week Wednesday from Edinburgh. And all the while the new semester is coming along too. Although the library here managed to loose all readings required for my courses this week. An enormous feat, imho, that freed me from feeling guilty about not having done much course work. Not that this week was quiet! I went skating with Joost P. at the Sommerset House Ice Rink, probably the most beautiful ice rink in London in the court of a Tudor Palace right in the centre of London... That day the ice rink included a whole school class of 10-12 year old kids. It was absolutely great, watching the poor sods struggling to keep on their feet and the occasional brave boy fall flat on his back when trying to go too fast or simply as a punishment for moving at all. Also notable was a snake made of people slowly crawling along the boarding consisting of all the poor kids who didn't dare to leave its safety or each other. Quite reminiscent of a trafic jam.

Tomorrow will bring another skating adventure: this time the Anthropologists will skate! I'm looking forward... Reports will follow soon enough.