April 1st, 2010: Netherlands Visit
At the end of March I visited the Netherlands to participate in the RFI2010 conference. I took a couple of days to visit Amsterdam before the conference itself which was definitely a good idea: it's a lovely place.
Unfortunately, the weather was somewhat bleak, so things weren't too photogenic in general. We've got the area near Amsterdam city center and the IJ:
This is the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope:
And this is the Low Frequency Array, possibly the most boring-looking telescope ever built. (But it will do a lot of very exciting science!)
