Before I started my PhD a group from Glasgow University took our Arcs and Sparks Show to the Orkney Science Festival.

During my PhD I have been fortunate enough to visit many places, either for conferences or on holiday.

In May 2004 I attended a summer school at the VIRGO dectector site near Pisa, Italy. The picture at the top of this page is made up of 10 individual photographs I took to make a 350 degree panoramic image of the VIRGO gravitational wave detector site in Italy. The full sized image is over 42 mega pixels and is over 7 metres wide!

Then, in June I went to France for a week and went to Paris, Cannes, Monaco and Nice. Prince Albert of Monaco has a large collection of old cars that is open to the public.

In July we had a Research and Development Meeting with some of our collaborators at the Max-Planck Institut in Hannover. I also went for a visit to the GEO600 Gravitational Wave Detector.

PPARC each year hold a summer school for postgraduate students to attend. I attended one held at the University of Leicester in September 2004, which included a trip to the National Space Centre.

In March 2005 I took my turn on shifts at the GEO600 Detector in Germany as past of the S4 Data run.