It is day 2 of 3 at this conference I am attending in Sivas, Türkiye. As if the opening concert were not enough yesterday, today we finished one of the scientific sessions with some Turkish folk dancing The conference has otherwise carried on with a combination of Turkish and international speakers. Unlike the kind of conferences I usually go to, the emphasis here is on theoretical and applied nuclear physics, with relatively little on experimental blue skies nuclear physics. This is, I think,..