My bags are packed and I am off again once more - the celebratory conference of IG Wolf is taking place this weekend, starting this evening, and it's promising to be a really interesting programme. The conference includes a concert and a wine-tasting evening with old grape breeds, plus a variety of different papers during Saturday and Sunday, and I'm very much looking forward to meeting a whole lot of old friends, acquaintances and colleagues there that I only get to see quite rarely.

My own presentation will be on Sunday morning, I'll be back home on Sunday night, and then I am just as happy to not be travelling for a while. If it feels like you've been living out of a bag for weeks, it's probably time to slow things down for a bit and not rush around through half of Germany for a while!