The usual way of life - at least I thought so - goes from the birth (which you can't influence), through the childhood (which you usually spend with the parents whether you like it or not), some studies, production age, your own family life (all of these you can - or think you can - influence) and towards the end of production life (or for the retirement) you head to the place of your childhood as the memories of those are much clearer and you (me anyway :)) want to catch up with the life back home.
We were born in Czechoslovakia during the totality of communism (unlike in democracy, where there is a diversity in the elections, the communists always had 99%). It was very hard to get the permission to travel (which we both liked) so after the velvet revolution (1989), when Martin got the first chance to work abroad (DKFZ, Heidelberg) we didn't hesitate too much and in 1992 we moved for 1.5 year to Germany - and stayed 4 years - then for the initial 3 years contract to EBI, Hinxton, UK (I worked there too). As for now we are still based in England just in between Martin worked in the Philippines (IRRI) and now he got a position in the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) near Jeddah in Saudi Arabia.
And here we are just now.
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