I got into the UK this morning. Plane arrived at around 6, through customs, and off to the car EBI had sent. Things went really smoothly, and it looks like we missed london traffic by about 15 minutes. Lucky us, as it likely would've added around a 30 minutes to the drive. As it was, I got to EBI by 8 AM. Got the rounds living on coffee, penguin mints, and sheer bloody-mindedness. Yay, caffeine!
Spend all of today at the Hinxton campus of the European Bioinformatics Institute. It's a relly cool place, the grounds are huge and nicely kept, and the lab itself is just amazing. Lots of rooms with automated robots doing experiments in 96 well experiment dishes, generating huge gobs of data. Their data center's also really impressive. Lots of machines, lots of blades, and an amazing amount of heat.
Dinner was at a small trendy fish place in Cambridge proper. Good food, though I broke my cardinal food rule. (There were eyeballs involved. Don't ask) No time to look around, which was a shame. I do want to go back and look some more.
Bedtime was about 9 PM. That was a good thing, since I couldn't go much past that. :)