Did you notice the subtle change of title sequence?
I'm afraid today was quite a boring day. Left the lovely De Prince Hotel at 10.00am and drove to Amsterdam Schipol Airport, got there by mid day.
Well, then there was a long, long wait, checked my bag in for Stockholm at 2.30pm and then waited for boarding at 7.45pm !!!!!
However, it gave me chance to get stuck into a book my brother bought me for my birthday, aptly named "The Book of Eels" by Tom Fort. Its a combination of the eels relevance to social history, natural history, mixed with a bit of science and a bit of cookery !!!!
Discovered something fascinating today though. None other than the famous Sir Humphrey Davey, the inventor of the miners lamp, speculated about the eels life cycle (he was a keen angler and naturalist and )and postulated that they deposited their eggs in deep holes in the sea.
Also a couple of chaps called Grassi and Calandruccio were first to correlate the strange transparent leaf like larvae (now known as Leptocephali) with the European Eel in the late 1800's. How did they do it? by matching the number of vertebrae!!!!!!
Well, didn't get to my Stockholm hotel until midnight so really pooped!!!
Looking forward to next few days
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