Berlin...

...is my next destination. I'm packing up, selling the house (I hope) and will leave Uppsala in exactly 3 weeks. A new job awaits me at one of the thin film photovoltaic companies lucky enough to secure financing before the financial crisis hit. For almost a year I've been hoping to join a small start-up in Zurich with a long way to go before having anything ready for market. Not surprisingly, the financing stalled and so did my job offer. It's too bad, because they're working on flexible solar cells with a long list of tricky problems to solve - just the kind of thing I thrive on. However, I've been assured that there are plenty of problems at the relatively successful company in Berlin. I'll be in research and development, hopefully not too terribly close to production. I expect the work will be exciting enough. So will discovering Berlin.