This was a shorter run, although still with a fair bit of climbing in it as I went back to some of the more view-friendly points of the lower half of yesterday's route, this time with a camera. Started to feel better once the climbing started; grinding the gears has been a regular experience in the first kilometre in recent times, but this week it's taken me a couple to get going. One especially nice section once up high, on a track winding more or less along the contour through the forest.
Today moved to a more formal stage of the meeting (i.e. seating was formally by country). I was keeping an eye out for interesting combinations on either diplomatic or footballing grounds. The Irish might have potentially had a challenging peace-keeping role between Iran and Israel except that the Iranians haven't yet turned up, while none of the World Cup quarter-final pairs are close to each other (though Chile are directly behind Brazil).
It's good knowing enough of the local language to be able to get a handle on the local scandals. Not that today's scandal in Germany (involving a couple of MPs getting up to mischief) needed much translation, with headlines including words like "SPD-Politiker", "Crystal Meth" and "Kinderporno".
Tonight's conference function is on a boat doing a cruise on the river. I'm guessing it might be a less lively affair than the
last time I had a function on a boat in Germany.