Here are the last hours of 2010, a year with a lot of changes predominantly at work and because of the work; related to that, a year of tremendous shortages of free time due to which – you will undoubtedly notice in this yearly greeting – I had to be exercising brevity; and use visual aids a lot.

Finally the end of April brought proper temperatures, and a great company:

sister Seka and godmother Natasa came to a visit

an excursion through the NL and surrounding happened with Seka,

we made the birthday party,

and an excursion to Danmark happened with Natasa.

http://hit.hanze.nl

which meant the predominant academy flavour again, at the Hanze Institute of Technology,

a quickly developing institute for applications of Sensor technology - HIT at wikipedia.

Since then, the HIT time intended to flood all days a week, all hours a day, even at the sport, or travel...

...except for one day each week, which I spent at Neopost, where I am leading a new European collaboration project DESTECS, with partners from the Netherlands (UTwente, CLP, Chess), Belgium (Verhaert), Denmark (Aarhus) and the UK (Newcastle).

(On the first photo not the Neopost interior really, but is very close :-)

The summer holidays were brief,

not much more than this could be done in our house in Groningen,

because we wanted to visit dear people and places in Serbia(n) and the Basque country.

for instance to Sloten, an official historical Frisian city,

moreover: and ideal city as it says on the sign,

with 750 citizens.

and as the year were getting colder, we had to undergo farewell with some of them,

and going places for making more photos of 2010 were increasingly replaced by more and more working hours.