Welcome to the land of egg yolks. It would be a lie to say that I don’t enjoy the fact that I look at least a little threatening in this photo. At the end of December last year, my boss looked at the travel budget and realised that we still had some cash, so sent us on a mission to find the best start-of-year conferences. After a quick search, I came up with a Tropical Ecology (!) conference, in Lisbon (!!) and in Feb (!!!- aka, when the sky in London is perpetually grey, but the sky in Portugal looks more like this:) I spent an enjoyable Monday-Thursday at the conference, walked to and from the venue from my hotel with a morning coffee (from ‘The Coffee‘ or Romana Specialty Coffee) in hand, and even met some Tropical Ecology in person: I don’t know, is a Peacock considered Tropical? (It did rain a couple of times, at which point I naturally sent demanding texts to my favourate Portuguese person and she kindly arranged for the … Continue reading One week and half a day in Lisbon