As you have probably noticed, I haven’t been posting about surfing for the last week and a half. That’s because I was attending an international linguistics conference. The name of the conference was AILA 2008.
It was a quite large conference that was held in Essen, Germany from August 24th - 29th. For those of you who aren’t familiar with Germany, here’s a handy map:
The closest international airports are Frankfurt and Dosseldorf. (I actually flew from Nagoya to Frankfurt and then took a 45-minute or so flight from Frankfurt to Dosseldorf).
