Almost half-way between Copenhagen and Aarhus lies the historical city of Odense. It is the third largest city in Denmark after Copenhagen and Aarhus and most famous for being the birthplace of Hans Christian Andersen. Odense, located on the Funen island, is named after the Viking god of war, poetry and wisdom - Odin. Though…
The last week of June 2019, just in time for a heatwave that swept across Europe with places experiencing record temperatures, I was in Toulouse for a week long summer school at Université Paul Sabatier. My friend J and I travelled together from the Netherlands where we were working together. She had signed up for…
March has been an insane month. What was meant to be a month of travel and fun turned out to be a month of panic, disappointment and now most of us are in the middle of an uncertain lock-down.'Independent People' by the Icelandic writer Halldor Laxness was a gift from a friend who currently lives…
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