With the weather being very pleasant we are continuing to explore the area. Recently, Sylvia took me up Mount Mourex, near Mount Mussy where Sylvia has been with the CERN women. A pleasant walk through mediterranean landscape, not unlike what we have in Edgewood park near San Carlos in California, but much greener of course. Even here, the CERN PR machinery functions: on an orientation table, what would we find but an indication of CERN (in the wrong direction) and even a lengthy write-up of what CERN is about. As it turns out, this is one of about 20 alignment monuments establishing the geodetic grid used to place the CERN accelerators. Good to know, I guess, although the features of CERN, much less the LHC, do not stand out from here.
Orienting table on Mt. Mourex. The lower middle of the table holds the CERN information (not readable at the resolution of this picture).
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