We have a place to live.

Guten Tag,
My first Blog entry. Wow. We will be living in Dresden, Germany for 9 months. Trish and I will be doing a sabbatical at the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics. We leave September 1, soon after we drop Patrick off at Davidson.

There are so many things to get done before we go. Today we accomplished a very important task. Trish signed a lease! No surprise, the lease was written in German. In fact our landlord and landlady do not speak English. We were lucky and so grateful that Carolyn, from the Institute, was able to do all the negotiations. We have 3.5 furnished rooms on the second floor of an old restored villa. Our house was part of a complex built for the famous Dresden opera singer Therese Malten. Her main house rents rooms as a bed and breakfast. There is a link in the link section.

Just so you know, they still have rooms available for Christmas.

The area is gorgeous. We will be living in a quiet part of Dresden, Kleinschachwitz, away from the center of the city. As long as it is not snowing we plan to bike to work along the bike path that runs along the Elbe river. We estimate an 8 km trip.

This is my first blog. I will use it to keep you posted of our plans and travels. I hope to post short notes regularly. We'll see how it works.