Testicals.. one, two..

This is some kind of test.. for how the e-mail blogging works..

But I will use it to give some news anyway. Today I had lunch with Lydia, Laura and my boss Saskia. Together we will fly to Cape Town November 23rd and have a three days vacation. We planned. And it became gooooooood!
We'll stay at some kind of lodge outside Cape Town City, close to the beach (100m) in a relative secure area. It is quite cheap , though a ****Hotel. As far as this is possible, we want to visit some wine cellars, a colony of pinguins and of course Cape Town itself within this three days. On November 27th we will bord "Polarstern" and the cruise will start one day later.
Besides: Saskia told me, that unfortunately some of the scientists had to reject from the cruise. But for me this is relaxing, as I feared, I would probably have to sleep at the quarantine ward of the medical station. Originally the shipping company had agreed in letting three more scientists take part in the cruise than "Polarstern" has beds for. So they planned to give the two beds in hospital and the one in quarantine ward to scientists also - at least as long as there is no case of emergency.. and as I wrote before, I still do not know with whom I will share my cabin.