My daily blogging at the Wired Temples Blog was not disrupted during September and the first weeks of October despite my busy schedules and frequent travel. The Eurobarometer work and the new term at university kept me occupied but forced my attention to temporarily stray away from this blog (a slight technical hitch also prevented me from publishing properly). The various locations visited in the past weeks provide plenty of inspiration for future blogging - Italy, Austria, Slovakia, Scandinavia, the United Kingdom, the United States and of course the Czech Republic which has been my second home during the past year.

The medieval city of Turku in Finland remains as appealing as when I first visited years ago. I was invited to attend an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of the Finnish secion of the Pan European Union which is headed by a Professor of Italian at Turku University who happens to be a good friend of Oliver Friggieri - he published Friggieri's works in Finnish some years ago.

My participation in a three day conference on international affairs in Washington DC for alumni of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy was a delight. I was a panel speaker at a session dealing with 'Europe in the World'. The discussion focused on what Europe could potentially bring to contemporary global affairs. My focus was on the gaps and contrasts between the intentions of European governments and the trends of public opinion in Europe. To my surprise, my hotel was right next door to the Malta embassy for the US on Connecticut Avenue. So I could wave at the Maltese flag everytime I walked out of the building.

Stay tuned to this blog as it will be much busier than it has been in the last weeks.

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