ISOP and IWOP-9 Venue and Activities
Planned Activities
Movie Night
Bring and share your movie treasures (contact Wayne Coats, coatsw@si.edu)
Auction for the Student Travel Fund
Donate items for this traditional event; bring your checkbook and be generous in your bidding (contact Linda Hufnagel and Robert Zackroff, lhufnagel@uri.edu).
The organizers also seek donations for the auction. All items should be easily portable to and from the meeting (for heavy items such as books, a description of the item can be provided if the donor is willing to ship the item to the recipient) and the donors should be prepared to take back their items if they do not sell. The auctioneers will not be responsible for shipping or transporting donated items to or from the meeting site.
Suitable items for auction include relevant historical documents and books, works of art (especially by protozoologists), photographs of protists or protistologists, jewelry, services such as scientific illustration and photography, and stays at holiday homes.
Organism-Based Dinners
Organism-based dinners have been organized during past IWOP meetings. At this joint ISOP-IWOP meeting, the Meetings Organizers and the Local Arrangements Committee in Lisbon will make arrangements for group dinners of substantial size. Since making restaurant reservations ahead of time might be necessary to guarantee space in the restaurants, it would be helpful to get an idea of how many might want to attend dinners together with other participants working on a specific organism or group of organisms. The groups can include accompanying persons/guests and registrants who just want to join that dinner group- one does not have to work on those specific group of organisms! There are two possible evenings in which these events might be scheduled; so people can join dinner groups on both nights. Each person is responsible for his/her own dinner bill, plus gratuity.
Organism-Based Dinners Registration FormOuting: Tour of Sintra, Cascais, Estoril
Depart for Queluz, a small town 14 kilometers Northwest of Lisbon where a royal summer residence, the Royal Palace of Queluz, was built in the 17th Century. The Royal chambers, the Music and the Throne-rooms, the Ambassadors' room as well as splendid halls and gardens are worth visiting due to the beauty of the 18th Century furniture, decoration, glazed-tiles wall panels and Brazilian wood parquet floors. Presently the Palace of Queluz is the official residence of all foreign Kings or Presidents on state visit to Portugal. It is considered a miniature Versailles.
The tour continues to the delightful town of Sintra, immortalized by the world-famous poet Lord Byron as "Glorious Eden". Located on the slopes of the Mountain of Sintra, the Royal Palace was the residence of many Portuguese Kings since the 14th Century. It has beautiful tiles, painted ceilings, centuries-old walls, as well as an unusually huge kitchen. There will be free time at Sintra where shopping for souvenirs and handicrafts is excellent. Lunch will be served at a local restaurant.
The tour will then descend the perennially green mountain and head for Cape Roca, the Western-most point of continental Europe; a stop will be made at the cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Then following the coastline the tour will pass Guincho Beach, Boca do Inferno (Hell's Mouth) an ocean-carved spectacle in rock arriving at the old fishermen village of Cascais. This site was chosen as the residence by the exiled European Royalty in the 1940's. There will be a stop by the lovely bay filled with fishing boats and there will be some free time in Cascais before returning to Lisbon via the Estoril coastal road.
Banquet and Awards
Lisbon and Hotel Villa Rica
LISBON, on the west coast of Portugal, is a European city with its history and culture influenced by Western Europe and Northern Africa. Population in the metropolitan area is 2 million. Average temperature during July is 28 ºC (75 ºF); Lisbon can be hot and sticky in the summer. Electricity is 220 volts AC, 50 Hz (round two-pin plugs are standard). Language is Portuguese, however, English is spoken at many business and tourist places.
Hotel Villa Rica
The best way from the airport to the hotel is by taxi (aprox. 4 kms = 2.5 miles) It is a 10 minutes ride, and it will cost around 7 Euros = 8,50 USD.
Regarding the Metro, the closest stop to Villa Rica is "EntreCampos", yellow line. The closest stop to Zurique is "Campo Pequeno" yellow line. A map is available.
This map of Lisbon (north part) shows the Hotels Villa Rica (H-1) and the Hotel Zurique (H-2) as well as the airport. More information about Lisbon is available at: www.visitlisboa.com
A hotel reservation form is available. If you want to share the cost of a hotel room make a note of that on your hotel reservations application form.
LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE:
- FRANCISCO ANTUNES - CHAIR
- OLGA MATOS
- MARIA MARGARIDA FERREIRA ALVES
- MARINA FERREIRA DA COSTA
- LUISA LOBO
- FRANCISCO ESTEVES
- ANTÓNIO AMORIM