Workshop - Day 3

The morning starts with a talk on "Mars Exploration 2009-2020" by D. McCleese. Inge and I were on time thismorning, as we had decided at the last minute to catch the morning shuttle rather than walk. In fact we arrived so early that we had time to infiltrate the Baia Verde breakfast room for a second breakfast...

	Ljuba, on the other hand, was absent. She had decided to sleep a bit later by skipping the shuttle and catching an ordinary bus from her hotel. Unfortunately the local busses had picked today to go on strike, so she ended up with a one hour walk into the Baia Verde...

After the moring sessions, Pio kindly agrees to use his CD-Writer to let Ljuba and I save all the images out of our digital cameras using some blank CD-R's that Ljuba had brought.

	The last of our daily buffet lunches at the Baia Verde

Then the short walk back to the conference room

	for the session on landing sites and astrobiology.

A final look at the Grand Hotel Baia Verde as we left to get ready for our farewell dinner at Taormina

	And a farewell to Gillaume who has to leave before the dinner

Farewell Dinner at Taormina

my fellow Jolly Hotel residents. Inge looks very relaxed after having skipped the last few presentations to go swimming.

	toasting the successful workshop with Jens

James and Cindy surrounded by a sea of glasses. James looks like he may have had too much of the strange green punch that was on offer on the terrace. (can you spot all 14 glasses in this picture..?)

	some of the table seemed still able to talk shop.

Inge seemed to get quite engrossed with a pen based organizer.

	Dr Gentry Lee conveys his thanks to Marinella Ercoli, who looked after much of the workshop organization, in his own inimitable style..