Yesterday started off a really nice day - blue skies and hot sun. We had lunch in a restaurant overlooking the bay, but by the time we returned to the hotel to collect our things for work, the clouds had closed in (view from balcony):
We headed on up to the observatory and it was looking like the clouds might clear. Last night I was tutoring the meteorite project, which is quite boring and unexciting so I supplemented it a bit with other stuff; the planetarium have a new meteorite collection so we did a little tour of that.
Then it was time for more interesting spanish food. Cold interesting spanish food too. Pork Meatballs in tomato sauce, macaroni cheese flan (yes), squid rings and potato croquettes.
We were totally based in the computer room last night, which was a good thing because all the other groups had to retreat indoors at about 2am as the rain started and the clouds showed no sign of budging. They managed to learn how to ue the microscopes and classified a few meteorites. At 4am we were expected to have a discussion on how chondrules form, and although we were all knackered, we ran over and the bus was waiting for the!
We got back at 6.30am and I remembered to put in ear plugs to get through the breakfast noise elsewhere in the hotel. I slept very well until 1.30!!
We went for lunch across the other side of the bay and I shared a paella with Lisette. It was very nice, but we had to eat quite fast as we were running late. We've jut arrived at the observatory for tonight, and its not looking too promising cloud-wise. I'll keep you posted.
Mmm, nice paella! Shame about the clouds.
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