Stan Getz is playing his saxophone when we leave Amsterdam. On his smooth jazz and other cool music (Fela Kuti, Madonna, Astrud Gilberto) we have been driving over 800 km today to bring ourselves and our hydrological equipment to our final destination in Aveiro, Portugal. Traffic in Paris is always a nightmare on this journey, but the other part went alright. The car has been loaded yesterday with soil physical and geophysical measurement instruments, water level sensors, meteo instruments, laptops and dataloggers, etc. Always afraid that we forget things... Vincent and I are now staying in a hotel near Chatellerault and will be leaving tomorrow early for Salamanca in Spain. Our students are still in the Algarve - doing a short hydrological field campaign on their own - and will travel to Aveiro by train on Monday.
This Portugal field course was initiated in 1969 so this is the 41st edition of this course, and the 6th time that Vincent and me are running the show. As usual we expect it to be great fun!
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