In summer 2010, an Anglo-Chinese expedition led by Prof. Rudy Gozlan will be going back to remote parts of China to find the origin of a fish invasion. A group of scientists from Bournemouth University and the Chinese Academy of Science will collect topmouth gudgeon material from 33 locations covering 9 major catchments and a trail of 10000km.
Hi guys, I'm back in England now. Good to hear that the trip and also sampling is going well, even without me ;-). Hope Yahui has managed to collect some more Carassius for me?! Although it is great to be back here with my family I envy you. What I don't miss is the 8 hours in the car each day. My back and bottom are glad that this is over. I bet you are also happy to have a bit more space on the back bench? I had a great time in Beijing. I'm glad that I decided to stay in the town centre - made things much easier. Friday evening I had a wonder to Tiananmen square and beyond (a good place for going out). Met lots of nice people, but also plenty of conmen who try to drag you into a restaurant of "their choice". Saturday I went shopping with my friend Liying, had Peking duck and saw the Summer palace. Plenty of fish in the lake! Rudy, if you go there take a net, maybe you can catch some of Nicols rare TMG morphotypes!! A word of advice concerning shopping. Most of the alleged silk stuff I bought turned out to be fake. Without having real silk as a comparison it is difficult to tell (for me anyway), although Kerry noticed within a few seconds :-( In fact the only real silk thing I bought was from the airport shop. My advice, buy your stuff there. Saw the great wall at Mutianyu on Sunday. As expected it was quite touristy but stunning nevertheless. On the bus I met a couple of crazy Spanish ladies in their 60ies and we went out in the evening – had a great time! I’m looking forward to the Semifinal with Spain tomorrow. Raffa, fair play, may the better team win! Although I do have to say that so far this was clearly Germany. But then every game is different and Spain has still live up to their potential, maybe they will tomorrow! Take care and thanks to everybody who has taken an interest in our Blog so far! Bernd
Hi guys,
ReplyDeleteI'm back in England now. Good to hear that the trip and also sampling is going well, even without me ;-). Hope Yahui has managed to collect some more Carassius for me?! Although it is great to be back here with my family I envy you. What I don't miss is the 8 hours in the car each day. My back and bottom are glad that this is over. I bet you are also happy to have a bit more space on the back bench?
I had a great time in Beijing. I'm glad that I decided to stay in the town centre - made things much easier. Friday evening I had a wonder to Tiananmen square and beyond (a good place for going out). Met lots of nice people, but also plenty of conmen who try to drag you into a restaurant of "their choice". Saturday I went shopping with my friend Liying, had Peking duck and saw the Summer palace. Plenty of fish in the lake! Rudy, if you go there take a net, maybe you can catch some of Nicols rare TMG morphotypes!!
A word of advice concerning shopping. Most of the alleged silk stuff I bought turned out to be fake. Without having real silk as a comparison it is difficult to tell (for me anyway), although Kerry noticed within a few seconds :-(
In fact the only real silk thing I bought was from the airport shop. My advice, buy your stuff there.
Saw the great wall at Mutianyu on Sunday. As expected it was quite touristy but stunning nevertheless. On the bus I met a couple of crazy Spanish ladies in their 60ies and we went out in the evening – had a great time!
I’m looking forward to the Semifinal with Spain tomorrow. Raffa, fair play, may the better team win! Although I do have to say that so far this was clearly Germany. But then every game is different and Spain has still live up to their potential, maybe they will tomorrow!
Take care and thanks to everybody who has taken an interest in our Blog so far!
Bernd