One of the wonderful benefits of being in High Energy
Physics (HEP) and physics in general is the opportunity that one has to
travel the world. This is
because the large national and international HEP laboratories are located
in places such as California, Illinois, New York, Switzerland, France,
Japan, Russia and Germany. As a result conferences are held around the
world providing many great travel opportunites.
My first real job after graduation was as a post-doc and required me to
live for 3 years in Paris, France. Since then I have
lived in Geneva, Switzerland for periods of approximately 1 year on two
occasions as part of my sabbatical leaves from the University. In one
recent period I had a choice of travelling to a conference in either Spain
or Hawaii to present an invited paper. I chose the conference in Spain
and had a wonderful vacation following the conference. I travelled from
the conference in beautiful northwest Spain to Barcelona before returning
to Iowa. I include here some photos of a few of the great sights that I
saw on that trip.
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| Roman aquaduct in Segovia |
 Castle near Segovia |
 Beach on the NW coast of Spain |