An adventure to The Netherlands

So here I am, about to travel to my 6th conference to a town called Wageningen in Holland. I'm quite excited, travelling alone, just me and my poster. I'm armed and at the ready with business cards and a list of people I want to track down to talk to about perhaps working together in the future, or now. I've never been overseas on my own before so my trip is tinged with a few anxieties, the usual "will I get lost" or "what if I catch the wrong train". But I'm sure I'll manage, I am, after all, 28 years old and big enough to look after myself. Of course, the event should be exciting, 3 days jam-packed with presentations given by the 'celebrities' of the food digestion world. All new to me though; my background is forensics and then pharmaceutics, but since starting my new role in March last year in a food, feed and ingredients company in Nottinghamshire, I've loved every minute of exploring ways to improve the nutrition of an expanding world, an ageing world, a starving world. Discussing ways of how scientists might be able to tackle obesity before it's too late. Discussing how cancers could be diagnosed more quickly to improve survival rates. It's an early start to catch the 7am flight in the morning, but it's going to be worth every minute of it!