InterPore2019: Eight minutes in Valencia – Part 2

With less than eight months (fortunately not eight minutes) to go until the conference, we would like to share some features and secrets of the Conference and amazing Valencia. Ready to start?! The motto here is “Make the most of InterPore2019” – plan the conference but also the perfect Valencia experience!

Photo: Photocapy, CC BY-SA 2.0

How can we start THE perfect day in Valencia? There is a delicious answer: by having a traditional Valencian breakfast. Today, we’ll choose a sweet breakfast. The morning starts with a coffee or instead try horchata with fartons. Horchata (orxatain Valencian dialect) is a popular drink squeezed out of tiger nuts (xufas in Valencian) and fartons is a kind of spongy sweet bread. Together they blend into a taste that is simply delicious!

Is it too late for breakfast? Would you prefer something else? Don’t worry, you can taste a typical almuerzo, a hefty mid-morning snack. In Valencia, eating almuerzo in mid-morning is a tradition. Almuerzo (esmorçaret in Valencian) is a big bread roll with stuffing. When your stomach is rumbling, an almuerzo washed down with a small beer or a coffee is the perfect solution.

Now, we are ready for the conference. We would like to invite you to participate in an exciting activity: let’s go to the Invited Poster Pitch. InterPore2019 gives you the opportunity to meet great porous media scientists just by visiting their poster! It is a perfect opportunity to start our day at InterPore2019.

Prof. Veerle Cnudde from Ghent University in Belgium will offer us the possibility to learn more about pore-scale processes. She received a PhD in geology and is currently a research professor at Ghent University. She is team leader of the Pore-scale Processes in Geomaterials Research (PProGRess) group, Dept. of Geology, and one of the coordinators of the Ghent University Centre for X-Ray Tomography (UGCT). Her research team specializes in non-destructive imaging of geomaterials and has strong expertise in real-time imaging of processes in the pore space. Research projects which she initiated are strongly linked to multi-phase fluid flow, evolving pore structures, dissolution and precipitation of minerals and in general weathering processes of porous sedimentary rocks. Have you met Veerle Cnudde already? She will be at InterPore2019! We are sure that her poster pitch will be punchy and intriguing!! You can find more information on the InterPore2019 website.

And after a day at InterPore2019…ah, the great outdoors! It is impossible to be bored in this amazing city. There is no better way to appreciate Valencia than spending time outdoors. Would you like one example? Let’s go to the beach. See you on the beach in the next newsletter!