The final week of February 2016 saw me relocate to the Scottish capital for a different and exciting week. As much as I am enjoying working on the technical development of ForeCoast Marine, it was a nice change of tack to briefly escape my computer screen and fluctuating love/hate relationship with Python. On Monday the 22nd I attended the first ever IDCORE Symposium. A conference created and organised by IDCORE Students that included brilliant presentations from the IDCORE research engineers, an informative poster session and an interesting overview of the energy sector from keynote speaker Mike Colechin of the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). A great success all round and an excellent