The conference venue: Stazione Marittima, Naples
the Dutch delegation of IAML arrived in style, making their grand entry with the boat
to the left, which had been borrowed specially for the occasion from Saint Nicholas

the view of Naples from the conference venue:
Castel Nuovo in the front, Palazzo Reale (with Biblioteca Nazionale) to the left,
and Montecalvario in the background

the deserted corridors while papers are in progress

Dutch treat: the Dutch delegation plotting next year’s conference at Amsterdam:
Nienke de Boer (about to take her seat), Joost van Gemert, Rudolf Rasch, Ria Warmerdam, Hanneke Kuiper, Marcel Zijlstra, Mieke van Heijster

more pictures after lunch, with Nienke de Boer and Hanneke Kuiper

Een gezellige middag in Naples with Marcel Zijlstra, my conscience in all matters of the faith.
The word gezellig is essentially untranslatable, because the experience is essentially Dutch: if you gotta ask, you’ll never know.
Part of the trick, though, is periodically agreeing, at the right moments, how gezellig a time we are having.

Marcel and I go back almost thirty years, ever since we both enrolled as students
in musicology at the University of Amsterdam in 1979. Remember to ask Marcel to tell you
the story of our first encounter, which he will gladly do—I’ll never hear the end of it.

The Trent Connection: lunch with Marco and Laura Gozzi. (I ate while they watched.)

One last look back at Naples before flying on to the Medieval & Renaissance Music Conference at Bangor.