London and Bled, Slovenia

In June/July, I was flown off to Europe again for a conference to tout my new algorithm to the world. My ultimate destination was to Bled, Slovenia, a little resort town that is like Banff, only half the size and then move the town to the front of Lake Louise, then add a small island with an old church and a cliff on the side of the lake with a castle. So pretty much, not like Banff.
My journey took me there through London, purchased as 2 separate round-trip tickets. So, naturally I decided to stay in London for another week and check it out.

The food in Slovenia is excellent and really cheap. I had a nice variety of things from turkey in peppercorn cream sauce to cheese dumplings (which resemble brain-looking twinky shapes and are oh so tasty) to excellent pizza with tartar sauce on it (a really great idea) to cheese sauce filled squid. All of it was outstanding and about 1/5 to 1/3 what you'd expect to pay in Canada. Other than the food, I'll report that the people were friendly, then again it was a tourist spot, but everyone seemed to smoke. Oh, and they have really cool signs like these.
A very elaborate sign.

Dads with 3-armed rabbit girls cross here.

The conference was a lot of fun, and I got a large amount of questions after my talk, which I am used to getting. Most talks get 0 or 2 questions.
I got 6.

London was a lot of fun to explore. The first day I went on a walking tour, then I went back the later days to see other places that were omitted. Here are some of my favorite pictures.
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How to park your Smart car.

The Physical Energy Monument.

Of course, there are many many more pictures in my photo albums, including the usual tourist pictures (I think these are better). Sorry to those who waited sooo long for me to put them up.