Madrid - conference
2015年9月2日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 28 °C
Attended and presented at a conference on AI applications. Appropriately held at this building dedicated to Alan Turing at the Escuela Politécnica Superior. Felt very empty, but semester might notもっと詳しく
Madrid - last bit
2015年9月5日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 13 °C
After the conference I went to the Prado museum, during the free two hours before it closes. There was a bit of a line...
Luckily they let us in quickly, as fast as they could x-ray our bags andもっと詳しく
Barcelona - arrival
2015年9月5日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Arrived in Barcelona, and it already seems nice. Little fountains/parks are on many streets and there was a small pond right by the train station (#1). I particularly like that instead of just streetsもっと詳しく
Barcelona - beach
2015年9月5日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 23 °C
Made it to the beach by around 8 pm on my first day here. It wasn't too busy - felt like most people had left for the day (although it was still light and the water was warm).
The beach felt sortaもっと詳しく
Barcelona - history & food
2015年9月6日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Did the usual history walking tour, this time featuring the Barcelona cathedral (#1, note the little angels above the door, each is unique), a quiet square with a chapel damaged by bombing in theもっと詳しく
Barcelona - Sagrada Familia
2015年9月7日, スペイン ⋅ ⛅ 23 °C
Wow. I've been to a few cathedrals already but this one was spectacular. Definitely the highlight of Barcelona for me. It is what happens when you let a slightly crazy genius modern artist (Gaudi)もっと詳しく
Barcelona - bye!
2015年9月8日, スペイン ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
Heading to Oslo!
Just a last look at those nice big subway cars with AC and working mobile network, and wide avenues with separated lanes - London, get on Spain's level!
Oslo - city wandering
2015年9月9日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Oslo (and surrounding country) is beautiful!
Stefan is very kindly letting me stay at his apartment, and spending time to show me around parts of the city. Thanks so much!
Today I walked around theもっと詳しく
Oslo - waterfront wandering
2015年9月9日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
Oslo has a waterfront pier area called Aker Brygge (#1,2) that's very similar to Auckland's viaduct, except fancier! There are even little water features creating streams that run down into theもっと詳しく
Oslo - misc
2015年9月10日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
Stefan's apartment is near the intersection of Tors gate (Thor's street) and Odins gate - pretty awesome street names here!
It's also clearly pretty affluent - saw my first Tesla Model S cars (atもっと詳しく
Oslo - Frognerparken
2015年9月10日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 20 °C
In line with my appreciation of statues elsewhere, the Vigeland statue installation (actually part of Frognerparken) was a highlight of Oslo for me. It's a park with a lot of (mostly human - naked,もっと詳しく
Oslo - Holmenkollen
2015年9月10日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C
Quite visible on Oslo's skyline is a huge metal structure on the hill - the ski jump column at Holmenkollen, apparently well known in ski-jumping circles worldwide (I am not in such circles).
Still,もっと詳しく
Oslo - Ekebergparken
2015年9月11日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
On the opposite side of Oslo from Holmenkollen and Frognerparken, there's another statue park, nice!
This one a collection of art from various artists (some famous, some current), set around a hillyもっと詳しく
Oslo - "Cruise"
2015年9月11日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
Need a cheapo mode harbour cruise? Take the ferry to nowhere!
Seeing as I had already bought a week-long public transit ticket, I met up with Stefan (who took part of Friday off work, apparently thisもっと詳しく
Oslo - (no) northern lights
2015年9月11日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
No pics, as this was a (maybe) failed attempt to see the northern lights in Oslo.
The Aurora was very strong and had been visible from Oslo in the past few days, but we didn't know where to go to getもっと詳しく
Oslo/Bergen - Train
2015年9月12日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌬 6 °C
There's a 7 hour train ride between Oslo and Bergen, and I heard it was one of the most beautiful train trips in the world (thanks, Adrian!). Wow, they weren't exaggerating!
Farms, then forested hillsもっと詳しく
Bergen - Night Lights
2015年9月12日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 10 °C
After our failed attempt to see the Northern Lights in Oslo, I made another attempt in Bergen. Still knowing nothing about Aurora-seeing techniques, but seeing the forecast was for strong activity andもっと詳しく
Bergen - city exploring
2015年9月13日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 14 °C
Bergen is apparently not important enough for a free walking tour, so I just wandered around town. Lots of small cobbled streets, a few parks, and glimpses between buildings of the small mountainsもっと詳しく
Bergen - Stoltzekleiven
2015年9月14日, ノルウェー ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Having only half a day to spare, and wanting to at least visit the top of a hill in Bergen in daytime, I decided to head up Stoltzekleiven (wearing chinos, oops). It's a steep track mostly made ofもっと詳しく
Bergen - Fjords!
2015年9月14日, ノルウェー ⋅ ☀️ 20 °C
My one extra expense in Bergen was to go on a Fjord cruise. I found one that was relatively cheap (100 NZD) and only took a few hours (some of them are multi-day hike/train/boat endeavours) calledもっと詳しく
Bergen/Oslo - Night train & stopover
2015年9月15日, ノルウェー ⋅ 🌧 13 °C
Making the most of my 7 hour train ride back the way I had come (and because I had never done it before), I decided to take a sleeper car in a night train.
It was very nice and cosy, with a 2-bunkもっと詳しく
Stockholm - arrival
2015年9月15日, スウェーデン ⋅ ☀️ 15 °C
[I'm not dead! Long delay due to no internet in Berlin, plus laziness]
After a rather long night/day of about 11 hours train rides, I arrived in Stockholm!
First impression is a standard modern cityもっと詳しく
Stockholm - exploring
2015年9月16日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Did a walking tour in the morning, including downtown areas, some nice gardens, and the rather underwhelming Stockholms Konserthaus, where they give out the Nobel Prizes (statue out front was moreもっと詳しく
Stockholm - Royal Palace
2015年9月16日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 17 °C
Happened to arrive at the royal palace just as the changing of the guard was happening. I'd missed (err, not bothered) seeing this in London so I got the Swedish version instead! The palace itself wasもっと詳しく
Stockholm - food
2015年9月16日, スウェーデン ⋅ ⛅ 18 °C
The Swedes make some delicious sweet food. They also invented cinnamon buns (kanelbulle), though they mar them with cardamon, and they're everywhere, even mini-packs from the supermarket :D
I think Iもっと詳しく









































































































































Ham and ham - what can go wrong lol :) - Michelle
旅行者Haha, it was actually kinda weird. Needed something non-pig based