by cwells | 2013-07-28 | Bus, Pix, Travel
The double-decker bus, or Paris L’Open Tour, is a great way to see so much of a city before deciding where you might actually spend more of your time in the city. With a number of different routes through the city, this is a great way to experience many...
by cwells | 2013-07-28 | Graduate School, Pix, Residency, Transit, Travel
One of the cultural excursions for the residency was a dinner cruise on the Seine River, which runs through Paris and gave us a unique vantage point from which to see Paris. Although we had seen some areas from the double-decker bus tour (a hop-on, hop-off tour is a...
by cwells | 2013-07-25 | Car, Graduate School, Residency, Tribe
The interesting thing about residencies is that sometimes, you run into folks that you have met before. This residency is a fairly small group of people, and I have already made some solid connections of colleagues that may be very helpful. Just like in middle school,...
by cwells | 2013-07-23 | Air, Car, Food, Graduate School, Pix, Residency, Train, Travel, Tribe
Yesterday was a travel day. If you are not a person who travels long-distance by plane, then you miss the joy of flying for a number of hours, navigating through airports, eating airport food (some good, some bad), being in close quarters with strangers, and being...
by cwells | 2013-07-19 | Car, Expat, Spain, Spanish, Travel
So I took today off to get ready for my trip to France as well as handle a single document off of my “visa” list. This was #6, the document from the police department that affirmed that I was not a criminal or fugitive. By 9:15, I had the document in hand....
by cwells | 2013-07-17 | Air, Graduate School, Residency, Travel, Tribe
My last residency for my PhD program is in Paris, a city where I have worked in the past and enjoy a great deal. There’s something for everyone in Paris, and the best thing to me is that I get to enjoy it with my tribe! Instead of staying in the residency hotel,...
