1492 and all that...

This coming weekend is a holiday weekend which means no meeting on Friday and no teaching on Monday. It's Christopher Columbus day (or something similar - hey I'm British, how the hell would I know?) and the day is to mark his discovery of the Americas.

Of course he wasn't the first to discover the Americas. Apart from the native population, there had been Viking visitors ever since the tenth century (give or take) but I guess Chrissie was the first to make a big fuss about it. Interestingly this continent isn't named after Columbus but supposedly after Amerigo Vespucci. If you want to know more go here. Anyway, the upshot is I get a day off work.

So I'm off to Cordoba (the Argentine one, not the Spanish one) for a few days r&r. I have a stack of homework to take with me to mark but I plan on enjoying some long(ish) walks, taking lots of photographs and catching up on my sleep. I'm going with L so it should be peaceful all round.