Durham is...

..a lovely city - I have to agree with Bill Bryson about this. This has nothing to do with the fact that the hotel I'm staying in only appears to have WiFi access in the bar area...which is where I am now...cheers!

They also have a great University Library with a real live chemistry collection so having spent the best part of 8 hours straight in there today, rooting through old journals so that I can finish this paper that's been gestating for the last 15 years [I kid you not], I'm now ready to eat something...anything.

Ristaurante San Marco I think, and don't spare the horses...

--G.