MAMCO

I love museums.
And I really liked this one. But, people at the museum wasn´t polite and even asking them any questions respresented a problem.

Nevertheless, it´s full of great art and installations.

My favorites:

* Thomas Huber´s Fishtanks.
* Christo´s Corridor Store front
* Cècile Bart, suspense at Geneve
* Claudio Parmiggiani, Crypt: it´s really scary, yo have to enter a dark room, and then, after a few seconds inside there, you start seeing hand prints on the walls.

Geneva

A very posh city. Everything´s tidy and clean. Everything´s expensive.

But, despite all that, it´s a very nice city!

It´s curious how I always pictured Europe like this cities, like Geneva for example. Old, different, elegant..., I don´t know.

Everybody told me the only thing to see in Geneva was the jet d´eau and the lake. But I found some great surprises like the museum of contemporary Art (MAMCO) or the old part of the city.

The 3º day, I left the EBMT for a while and did some touristic stuff. My favorites: the broken chair sculpture infront of the United Nations building, the old city, the City hall, the Cathedral, the lake, and of course, the Jet d´eau. 

The last morning, it rained, so I only got frozen and wet. I visited the lake on the other side. And then, I went to MAMCO.

I also bought the best souvenir ever!: the Kodak brownie starmite in an antique store. 

I came back almost running to the hotel to get the transfer to the airport.

Infront of the United Nations

The broken chair

Maple and walnut icecream

Climbing the Cathedral towers

From the Cathedral

City Hall

Sissi monument

EBMT

I just came back from London, and  I´m again going away!

This time to Switzerland, exactly to Geneva for the EBMT Meeting.  I´m really proud of myself, I brought a poster about ABO incompatibility and transfusion requirements in Allogeneic transplant.  People asked some questions about my work, but everything went fine.

I spent the whole 2 first days in the meeting. I was  amazed to listen to all those people that write the articules and papers I read! Cordormmier, Bacigalupo, Locatelli, Carreras, Rovira, Veys, among others…

By the third day, everybody had gone to the city centre, so I decided to sightsee for a few hours in the afternoon (read the next post!).

The meeting  ended today at noon, so I could visit again the city for a while.

I was a great Congress, to be perfect, Karem would have come too! But everybody in the group was so kind, I had a great time and knew some nice people. They were from San Sebastian, Bilbao and Barcelona mainly.

With my poster

Best coffee at the congress

Time to rest at the hotel