Domas

After a hibernating period of over seven months, we're finally back blogging.

Same procedure as every year. Or at least almost. As usual, we wanted to go to Tvärminne by train and ferry. One takes the 9 o'clock train in Basel, changes in Hamburg and arrives in Rostock before 18:00. The ferry leaves at 21:00 arrives the next evening at 18:00 in Hanko, which is just a 20 minutes' car drive from Tvärminne Zoological Station. Unfortunately, that's history because the Estonian company Tallink bought the three Superfast ferries circulating between Rostock and Hanko. Tallink fired most of the people and changed the timetable without further ado. Now the ferry leaves Rostock at 05:00 and arrives 26 hours later in Hanko. Because we had already booked our train tickets, this meant our trip took half a day longer, which is quite annoying. What's more, the new ferry crew is a bunch of lazy buggers. At least Florian was happy. The bed was very comfortable, almost as cosy as an eider nest.

After roughly - ahem - 13 hours of sleep, our Daphnia had to be fed, and all the bad air could pass off the falcon tubes. (BTW, if anyone cares, all clones are in good health, they're glad to be back in their home country.)

After another - this time rather short - night, we had a hefty French breakfast. The nice thing about it was that it was filling AND at the same time reminding us of Laurence :)

Don't worry, we won't post photographs of sausages anymore but would like to refer to a very good source of reviews on dodgy food.

And then we finally arrived in Tvärminne. How much did we miss the view out of our office window - at day and at night.

More to come. Stay tuned.