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Friday, September 11, 2009

Barcelona here we come!

In slightly more than a week the bulk of EGEE’s community will cluster around the hotel Barcelo Sants in Barcelona for a week that will do much to determine the future European grid computing.

What a great city for this week of discussions, workshops and presentations! All delegates should be sure to sample the rich sights, sounds and tastes of this Mediterranean city.

In coming blog posts I’ll be trying to share a few highlights with you. To start with, how about some language basics?

Both Catalan and Spanish are spoken in Barcelona. A few useful phrases in Catalan (borrowed from the Wikitravel Catalan phrasebook:

5 comments:

Danielle Venton said...

I think this last phrase is going to be especially useful for me!

José Luis Vázquez-Poletti said...

An EGEE Conference is not an EGEE Conference without Danielle's language cheat sheets! :-D

Unknown said...

You're right, but an EGEE gridcast is not really a gridcast without you José!
;)

José Luis Vázquez-Poletti said...

I don't deserve so much, but thank you very much ;-).

It's great to be with you all again, my friends.

Danielle Venton said...

Aw, thanks Jose! I'm delighted that we'll be back blogging as a team again!