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| The Vatican Observatory refractor, which is on the roof of the Papal Summer Palace in Castel Gandolfo. |
OK, let's see if we can get this going.
I have a long trip coming up, albeit one that has us (mostly) staying in the same place. Jennifer and I have the pleasure of being guest lecturers at the Vatican Observatory Summer School in Albano, Italy, about a half hour south of Rome. The school runs the month of June, we're currently planning to spend some time prior to the school in Zürich and about a week after the school doing some additional touring (right now we're thinking of Vienna).
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| The students will have access to quite the library. This is something we pulled off the shelf on a previous visit to the Vatican Observatory HQ in Castel Gandolfo. |
This will not be our first trip to Italy, nor the first time as the guests of the Vatican Observatory. We visited in 1996 and stayed in Castel Gandolfo in-between conferences in Versailles and Berlin. I also had the pleasure of a visit to Rome in 2011 and a visit to Castel Gandolfo as part of that trip. Finally, I was in Rome last year, as well as the nearby town of Frascati.
I don't know what our schedules will be like there, but I at least hope to post on occasion. I also do plan to talk about some past trips here once I get into the blogging routine!
