ENGLISH Posts in the Post-PhD Trips series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Genova 3. Part II: Cinque Terre 4. Part III: Firenze 5. Part IV: Roma 6.Part V: A Weekend in Marseille Getting There To go to Rome, we took the business class high-speed Frecciarossa train from Firenze – Santa Maria Novella to Roma Termini. As…
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#1887 – Post-PhD Trips (Part III: Firenze)
ENGLISH Posts in the Post-PhD Trips series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Genova 3. Part II: Cinque Terre 4. Part III: Firenze 5. Part IV: Roma 6.Part V: A Weekend in Marseille A Day in Firenze To get from Cinque Terre to Firenze, we took the regional train from Riomaggiore to La Spezia, then a first…
#1884 – Post-PhD Trips (Part II: Cinque Terre)
ENGLISH Posts in the Post-PhD Trips series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Genova 3. Part II: Cinque Terre 4. Part III: Firenze 5. Part IV: Roma 6.Part V: A Weekend in Marseille Background To me, Cinque Terre was the main destination of this trip to Italy. So in the planning stage, we tried to schedule our other…
#1882 – Post-PhD Trips (Part I: Genova)
ENGLISH Posts in the Post-PhD Trips series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Genova 3. Part II: Cinque Terre 4. Part III: Firenze 5. Part IV: Roma 6.Part V: A Weekend in Marseille Getting to Genova There was no direct Amsterdam – Genova flight on the day of our travel so we had to transit at Paris –…
#1878 – Post-PhD Trips (Introduction)
ENGLISH Posts in the Post-PhD Trips series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Genova 3. Part II: Cinque Terre 4. Part III: Firenze 5. Part IV: Roma 6. Part V: A Weekend in Marseille Two weeks ago, I had my PhD defense and graduation which my parents and brother attended as well. When planning for the trip here, as…
#1828 – Side Stories from My September 2016 Sabbatical Trip: Europe
ENGLISH Posts in the September 2016 Sabbatical Trip: Europe series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Bucharest 3. Part II: A Romanian Wedding 4. Part III: The Dracula Castle Tour 5. Part IV: Aegean Airlines and Athens 6. Part V: Santorini In this post, I would like to share some side stories from the European part of…
#1816 – September 2016 Sabbatical Trip: Europe (Part V: Santorini)
ENGLISH Posts in the September 2016 Sabbatical Trip: Europe series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Bucharest 3. Part II: A Romanian Wedding 4. Part III: The Dracula Castle Tour 5. Part IV: Aegean Airlines and Athens 6. Part V: Santorini *** I bet most Santorini pictures you have seen are taken in the town of Oia…
#1815 – September 2016 Sabbatical Trip: Europe (Part IV: Aegean Airlines and Athens)
ENGLISH Posts in the September 2016 Sabbatical Trip: Europe series: 1. Introduction 2. Part I: Bucharest 3. Part II: A Romanian Wedding 4. Part III: The Dracula Castle Tour 5. Part IV: Aegean Airlines and Athens 6. Part V: Santorini *** From Bucharest, our next destination was Santorini in Greece. There was no direct flight between…
