the return of viscoelastic

Viscoelastic is not dead, just lazy. In my defence I have been away. Managed to convince the chief visco-elastic honcho that spending a week at a food rheology conference in the Confoederatio Helvetica (otherwise known as Switzerland) is essential to my education.

Viscoelastic discovered a delicious brew of beer during the conference. The Turbinen Braeu, which literally means turbine brew!



unfortunately their website is in Krautspeak so I couldn't give you anymore info, all I know is that it is ravishingly smooth and creamy. The swiss being extremely civilized creatures, broke out the kegs at 3pm. Needless to say, the talks were all a blur to me.

Other delights from Switzerland which I sampled include the infamous Luxemburglis. They were actually meant for the turtle girl but due to the unusually high viscoelastic tax, she was only able to enjoy a small portion of the hoarde.



No viscoelastic field trip is complete without collecting every single map which I came across. I now have a very nice swiss map, a zurich map, and a bunch more concerning the Engiadine Valley + ski maps.



We also got a flashy GPS system with the rental car. But all it seemed to do was:
a.)Indicate that we are 3 miles from the nearest driveable road when we were happily cruising down an autobahn.
b.)Say in a loud mechanical voice "CALCULATING ROUTE"
c.)Insist in its loud mechanical voice "MAKE AN AUTHORIZED U-TURN AS SOON AS POSSIBLE", when we were happily cruising down the correct autobahn in the correct direction.

The name of the system is NEVER LOST (sic).

Holiday's over! Pigs. Be afraid, be very afraid