May 7, 2009 -- Leave West Hartford at 12 noon to go to JFK airport; ~7 pm
take off for Nice
Great start to trip - a whole row to sleep in!
May 8, 2009
Nice - iPhone connects! - view
from airport (~9 am)
Rome - view from airport (~noon) - train
to Termini - train from Roma to Napoli (~2:30
pm)
Napoli - train compartment (6 people) - Station
Centrale (~5 pm) - Hotel Majestic (~5:30 pm -
23.5 hrs after started)
Walk and try to find Stazione Zoologica - narrow street - I
think this is it - gps
good! - apricot juice - sfogliata
May 9
another italian pastry - typical
napoli statue, typically
with graffiti - liceo humberto near hotel (according
to italian wikipedia, a relatively famous school, also with graffiti) - view
of coast, Stazione Zoologica is at the far
end of the trees
Castel d'Uovo - view of coast - Vesuvio - hill
lemon granita from a street stand - someone
swimming! (everyone else wasn't) - pizza
May 10
piazza plebescito 1 - 2
Vomero - supermarket scenes:
eggplant - peppers (they're large) - artichokes - greens - green
tomatoes, fennel - pasta 1 - pasta
2 - olive oil - capers
Vomero - Castel Sant' Elmo - views from:
Posillipo - Stazione (at right hand edge of trees at coast) - higher
mag -
vesuvio 1 - 2 - centro
historico (I think)
May 11
breakfast at espresso bar
Stazione Zoologica - fresco room 1 - 2 - courtyard
Aquarium: squid - eels
Dinner 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 - restaurant
May 12
The octopus 1 - 2 - it
grabbed the camera and tried to eat it! - pulls the cork out of a bottle and eats a
crab
May 13
Rome: Castel Sant'Angelo - Pantheon - its
hole in roof - movie inside - forum
ruins - Colosseum
you can find sushi in a supermarket!
May 14
EMBL - starfish tanks: water supply - filter
system - tanks
new double helix building - lunch
May 15
10x epiplan 0.2 NA unusual lens
lunch: looking at a movie 1 - 2
marina / masashi - sebastian
/ marina / mayumi / masashi - at Le Tagine
May 16
walking around Heidelberg -altstadt 1 - 2
spargelzeit (asparagus season) - you can get sushi in a german supermarket
lunch at cafe burkhardt
view from philosophen weg (climb the hill / mountain on other side of Neckar
River)
May 17
View from Nathalie's apartment
Brunch - Jan & Peter
May 19
Evelyn finds parking at 10:30 am (new perk as Director!)
Everlyn lab relocated - lab windows - view from lab
Evelyn and Patrick