Chateau de Bonas at dusk

15th Century House in Auch, a small city near the meeting site

The American "girls" in Auch

Inside the cathedral of Auch

David Schuster imitating d'Artagnan

The old prison tower in Auch

Fois Gras! That is all you will see, hear about, eat, and smell during your stay here, 
but it is so gooooood...

Besides duck, foie gras, great wines, they love garlic in this part of South-West of France

The landscape near Chateau de Bonas

Landscape with a small lake near Chateau de Bonas

Koichi Komatsu (University of Kyoto)

Maurizio Prato (University of Trieste)

Kees Hümmelen (University of Groningen)

Nazario Martin (left) and Luis Echegoyen (right)

François Diederich (ETH Zurich)

Dirk Guldi (University of Notre-Dame)

Nazario Martin presenting his lecture.
Sorry, but not everyone had the luck (or bad luck) 
to get a picture of their presentation...

Kaes in action...

David Schuster (front)

David Schuster (back)

First  stop:   Cystercian  abbey

The happy campers on our 
Wednesday afternoon tour...

Tracy Stokes, one of the two charming 
organizers of this wonderful meeting

Some of the "best" fullerene chemists in the world...

one more time...

Eichi Nakamura(University of Tokyo)

Roger Taylor(University of Sussex)

Klaus-Peter Dinse
(Technische Universität Darmstadt)

Jay Siegel
(University of California, San Diego)

an old abbey we visited that afternoon...

Inside of the abbey's church

inside garden

back of the church

Andreas Hirsch, a chair of this beautiful meeting (Friedrich Universität, Erlangen)

Now... who really discovered gravity?

a sundial

Vijala Kiru, the other charming
organizer of this meeting

Patrick Bernier, his daughter, 
and Vijala (not related...)

Entrance of a fortified village

Luis Echegoyen inside the village

A good break in this very hot afternoon

Nanotube folks (front table)
and the Diederich group members (back)

the Diederich group members

Inside the fortified village

Andreas, Kaes, and Dirk

inside the church of this village

A column top in the church of this fortified village

Inside the fortified village

A old distilling cart for Armagnac

an old water well by the distillerie 
(sorry, no corpses down there...)

barrels of aging Armagnac...

the "secret" cellar with the oldest and rarest Armagnac bottles

The best for the last...
A tasting session of Armagnac in various forms...

Larry and Dawn Scott getting toasted...

After all this liquor, some people 
just needed to sit down...

Most of the meeting participants

The hallway inside Chateau de Bonas

A room inside Chateau de Bonas 
lived in by Madame

The purest water  in the Chateau 
comes from this well deep down the cellars

A "blurry view" of the concert artists after our banquet. Perhaps was it my eyes that got blurry?
(this is an inside joke... sorry!)

I spent some time in Bordeaux and cities of Brittany 
to give seminars. Here's just a couple of pictures...

The Garonne river passing through Bordeaux

In Bordeaux, they have BUCKY trash cans!