In 2014, I was selected by the International Seabed Authority for a training programme aboard a Chinese research vessel in the Indian Ocean. The ship departed from Mauritus in March 2015 and returned to same at the end of April . These next few blog posts chronicle my time in Mauritius...
I left my friend Patrina in Rome on my way to Venice!!!! However, before I get to that, I decided to make a quick stop en route in Florence. In this instance it was mostly so that I could stop by the famed Uffizi Gallery which I have always wanted...
Rome My trip to Rome didn’t start off on the best note that it could have, but let’s fast forward ahead to where my friend Patrina and I were hosted by a colleague of hers. Fortuitously, the apartment was located in Trastevere, which is actually an excellent part of Rome...
Well here I am again updating this blog. This is likely to be the last round for some time yet, but stay tuned because there are lots of updates coming. I had to be in Europe again for my MSc presentation. To cut the story short that went well and...
Yet again this blog has been on the receiving end of neglect. I won’t make any excuses, I’ll get right to it! So on to London! My friend Michael (who is an officer in the Coast Guard back home) was over on this side of the pond...
Well this update is waaaaaayyyy overdue; even more so than any other that I have been tardy with before. So much was going on this summer though, and then my laptop went in for repair which took longer than expected (and silly Ren didn’t back-up this particular document.) Anyhoo,I haven’t...
My trip to Morocco started with me tearing through the Madrid Barajas airport for what seemed like hours trying to get to the gate. Yes I was late (due to some bad metro route planning by Davia and myself) and I arrived huffing and puffing to find that there...
At last!!…..showing this blog a little love. As some of you may know, I’m now in Bilbao,Spain for this leg of my programme. Since its been so long, I thought I would try video entries this time around!! 🙂 And then part two…… And some pictures for good measure…. Pintxos!!...
Ok so I know I’ve been very, very delinquent with this. Can’t tell how many times I tried to get this one started and finished. Unfortunately things started to get pretty hectic in the last part of the semester. I also had every intention of updating as soon as I...
The other evening I went with my class mates to the “official” opening of this little bar that we’d been frequenting on the campus(on the campus yes, but I usually take the tram to get there.) It was pretty nice at first. They had a live band; a reggae band...
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