I'm in Munich at a conference this weekend and this is more or less the view from the fitness centre in the hotel. It doesn't get much better.

I came across a wonderful orange juice description on the unopenable-without-squirting-everywhere carton on the plane coming here - 'slightly pasteurised orange juice'. Now, I know you can have gently carbonated water and lightly simmered peas but...I suppose they only wipe out half the germs.

I try not to use this blog as a press release distributor but sometimes linking to a release makes sense. This one is all about our efforts to develop scientific publishing in China. It's a big deal for us and a big deal for scientific communication and what's more it's been made possible by sponsorship from the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for which we are hugely grateful.