One of the paradoxes of my growing older is that I seem to be working harder and, interestingly, at a higher level. At the moment I am guest of a Romanian colleague Professor Ioan Ianos, who heads up a research centre at the University of Bucharest.
Well, he arranged for me to give lengthy addresses to two major Romanian Institutions one after the other today, but I survived the occasions well. I gave both in English, but I sent the presentations in advance to Ioan's office where his staff translated them into Romanian. Thus anyone in the audience who did not know English could grasp what I saying in their own language!
The first meeting I addressed was the Romanian Academy's Institute of Geography and the second was across town at the National Economic Institute in the huge building occupied by the Romanian Academy. I needn't bore you with the details of my argument, except to add that both presentations focused on the difficulties of economic management in an era of massive technological change. Both were well received by my audiences, which was great ... but very tiring personally!
Alas, I have no pictures of me making my presentations, but I can show you the setting. The Romanian Academy is in the Parliamentary Zone and, like a lot of communist era public buildings, is massive in proportions with heaps of wasted space and, as far as I could see, no lift to whisk people up several floors. Here's the front of the building:
Am I becoming a megalomaniac? Oh well! I can't be as bad as Donald Trump!
AS
Well, he arranged for me to give lengthy addresses to two major Romanian Institutions one after the other today, but I survived the occasions well. I gave both in English, but I sent the presentations in advance to Ioan's office where his staff translated them into Romanian. Thus anyone in the audience who did not know English could grasp what I saying in their own language!
The first meeting I addressed was the Romanian Academy's Institute of Geography and the second was across town at the National Economic Institute in the huge building occupied by the Romanian Academy. I needn't bore you with the details of my argument, except to add that both presentations focused on the difficulties of economic management in an era of massive technological change. Both were well received by my audiences, which was great ... but very tiring personally!
Alas, I have no pictures of me making my presentations, but I can show you the setting. The Romanian Academy is in the Parliamentary Zone and, like a lot of communist era public buildings, is massive in proportions with heaps of wasted space and, as far as I could see, no lift to whisk people up several floors. Here's the front of the building:
And to the left, the building looks like this ... with a similar wing to the right. It's altogether a massive structure.
And, as I took those pictures, I had this next building behind me. It's the parliament building, which I discussed in a blog post a while ago - the second largest building by floor area in the world after the Pentagon in Washington DC.
Am I becoming a megalomaniac? Oh well! I can't be as bad as Donald Trump!
AS
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