Ammersee

In the day after the Sketch Tools for Diagramming workshop in Herrsching (Germany) and before return home, I went for a boat trip in the Ammersee lake plus a walk around the town. In the picture below you can see me in the boat deck after leaving Riederau, on the oposite side of the lake.

Annecy 2008

After the SBIM'08 workshop and during the last day of the Annecy Animation Film Festival, Saturday, I used some spare time to enjoy the city and its surroundings. In my rollerblades I went to Duingt, a small town in the left margin of the lake, a dozen kilometers south of Annecy. It was a quite pleasant trip in a cycleway by the lake. During that day I rollerbladed more than forty kilometers, the longest distance I have ever ride in a single day. But the conditions for that were great. If you're planning to visit Annecy I strongly recommend to consider taking your bike or skates with you. It's worthy.

Rollerblading in Annecy (France) surroundings

Goodbye Genoa

My fellowship at CNR IMATI-Ge finished last Friday. Thus, on Saturday morning I was packing and in the afternoon embarking on a ferry to Barcelona, from where I rode to Lisbon.

I want to thank everybody at the Shape Modeling Group for the way they welcomed and supported me: it was a pleasure to work with you, guys.

Waiting, with other motorcyclists, to went on board.

Godbye Genova.

Fluviário de Mora

Yesterday, to take the most of my last weekend in Portugal before leaving to Genoa, I went with my wife and son to the Fluviário de Mora. An aquarium dedicated to wildlife of rivers, in a small town in rural countryside. It was somehow a disappointment, especially because we are used to the wonderful Oceanário de Lisboa with its huge 5.000 cubic meters main tank. Anyway, I took some nice pictures in the Fluviário.

A frog from the tropical rain forest.

Two weeks in Genova

In the first two weeks of December, I've been in Genova (Italy) to attend the AIM@SHAPE final workshop and the 2nd International Conference on Semantics and digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2007). Besides I visited the Shape Modelling Group at CNR IMATI-Ge, were I'm planning to work for three months in the beginning of next year. The picture below was taken before the social event, in front of the hotel were the conference was held.

Posing after the SAMT 2007 conference