Off to do my 'Ostrava talk' at another university now. 6 hours driving (road trip! [1]) seems a long way to go for a 20 minute talk till I think how far I went in the summer for the same.

The colleague I'm going with *had* agreed to go in a rather nice RV we found for hire. (Worked out the cost was about the same as trains and two hotel rooms). But he repented of the offer (made after nearly bottle of wine) and has in the interim had to suffer much ribbing from other colleagues about the "Brokeback Winnebago" trip. I think it would have been fun - in a sort of interesting way! Ah well, another time.