Monday, July 21, 2014

From Paris to Venezia, from Les Mines to U Ferrara, in 3 weeks!


Well sometimes you don't have a choice...
things crumble, get pilled up... and this is how I got from a week of classes in Paris in Institut Les Mines Telecom to 4 days of workshop and classes focusing on waste management in Ferrara, a nice little italian town north of Bologna.
From teaching Supply Chain Management to very smart students from all around the world (with their own drawings of bikinis!!!) to papers presentation in a workshop on Waste Management and North/South divide in Italy.



And of course I was not going to skip what was in the middle: A few days in Paris, to rediscover by velib...



A day in Bordeaux to see friends and borrow the mighty BMW R1100, a few days in Biarritz to rest, to swim, sleep and eat well... and the adventure was on: Toulouse, Carcasonne, an evening with Martine and Freddy, singing, dressing up in Brazilian carnival...near Montpellier... then the amazing lavender fields of south Lavandou, especially from Apt to Aix... 


What a dream to ride that big BMW motorbike from one lavender field to another... that was her dream, box ticked!




Then Cannes and the realisation that driving such a motorbike everyday is really exhausting... so lets go by car...

Italy: a night in Cinquo Terre to start up with, then Parma, Bologna, just on time at 1pm for the start of the workshop on Waste Management and the divide North/ South which I was there for at the University of Ferrara:

Managing waste as a resource: economic and policy perspectives in international domains
http://www.sustainability-seeds.org/index.php/news

After a few days of stress and presentations some relaxing times along the cost, in the amazing Venezia...


even though it seems to me more like a Disneyland of the 19th century than a real living city now.


The magic, the romance is still there at every corner, especially if you meet Carlos and Julia who invite you to visit the best pasteries in Venice and sit at sunset time to have a Sprezzi!


 We did not even find the "pont des soupirs' no need for the usual tourist traps...



We found so many bridges to sing on, together with our friends... to enjoy the typical ice creams...



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