Sunday’s biggest project was to explore one of the main tourist attractions of Mumbai, the Elephant island. A slightly misleading name when the only animals we met were banana-stealing monkeys. Originally, the name comes from a grand elephant statue made of stone, which however now… Read More »Sunday, day 3 – Elephant island and Indian comedy
The first night at the guest house at TISS – Tata Institute of Social Sciences was highly rewarding and a ten hours sleep in air conditioned rooms was just what we needed. The rooms are very good, equipped with TV, AC and a “so so” working computer. The electricity is… Read More »Saturday, day 2 – Getting used to Mumbai
Hello all! We’ve arrived in Mumbai, safe and sound. Thursday was spent hanging out at airports in Copenhagen and Paris where we played cards, ate croissants and macarons (from Ladurée, omnomnom) and finally just became incredibly passive while waiting for our flight to take off.… Read More »On the move: Copenhagen-Paris-Mumbai
We began our day with a long sleep-in. On most of our days in Rome the alarm clock sounded very early but not this day. The reason was that our only meeting was at 15.30 instead of 8 or 9 a clock in the morning.… Read More »Day 7 – The return of the Wi-Fi, gelato and the last dinner
On Thursday morning the alarm sounded before 6 am. Still half-asleep, we walked in a crisp weather to the railway station and took a train towards Firenze (Florence). During the one and half hour ride some of us slept, while others tried to wake up.… Read More »Day 6 – Firenze, the city of art
Yet another early morning sun woke us up in lovely Rome. Between Fontana di Trevi and the party office of Popolo di Libertà (Berlusconi’s party), we met with the Italian correspondant for Dagens Nyheter Peter Loewe in the fancy Stampa Estera – the journalists press club in… Read More »Day 5 – The day Rome defeated Malmö’s Bar Italia in the ice cream competition
Buongiorno! I’ll start off with an apology regarding the blog silence. The Wi-Fi we were expecting to have at our apartment didn’t start functioning properly until Thursday night (i.e. two days before our day of departure), which is why we’re posting several entries simultaneously. But… Read More »Day 4 – “When life gives you citrus, you make juice”
Monday was our first full day of meetings, and there was an air of anticipation in the group. We were up bright and early for a meeting with Kristina Kappelin, a Swedish journalist based in Italy. We did our best to get the apartment ready… Read More »Day 3: ‘Pantheon is perfect, “perfect” is pantheon. The most unfortunate thing is to die without visiting Pantheon. I met gifted children there.’
Buongiorno! Our Sunday morning began with the regular “Who’s in the shower? It’s my turn!”-chaos, and ended with a happy bunch of fresh-feeling students leaving the apartment for a meeting with Ulla Gudmundson at Casa di Santa Brigida. After five minutes of walking in the… Read More »Day 2 – The ambassador, the Pope and Bernini (walk into a bar…)
Buongiorno! We have arrived in Rome and we have already managed to do several touristy things. The sun was out when our cab drove the first bunch of us into town from the airport, and after finding our apartment (which is right in front of… Read More »Day 1 – Day of Arrival!