Yesterday was pretty much a long day of preparation and presenting. The day started with no internet, possibly for the entire island of Kos, I wasn’t really every that clear on the whole of it. Apparently there are 2 underwater lines coming to Kos island and both had been severed or put out [...]
The actual conference was not too difficult to get to - I ended up waiting for the bus much longer than I should have, sitting about 30 minutes. That was kind of annoying, but more annoying was the issue that I had to make a connecting bus, but it wouldn’t show up for another [...]
Waking up in Kos was altogether pleasant, especially because I put the very effective air conditioner on in order to alleviate the high humidity. The room was nice and dehumidified, although I feel bad about using the air conditionar as a glorified dehumidifier. I suppose it is better than using it as a [...]
Getting to the Athens airport was easy as pie. Well, easy as buying pie. A short walk to Victoria station and then buy a ticket at the counter for 6€. It is more than a normal ticket, but it’s way cheaper than the 30€ or so that you pay by taxi. The [...]
Acropolis was pretty exausting yesterday, so I didn’t get to write before I got to Kos (Κωφ). I took the long, very steep way up to Acropolis, on the east side. The hill was very steep, but there were plenty of coffee shops and such in Plaka there, and the architecture was very [...]
The good news is that the talk went really well.. The bad news is that I was dead tired afterwards, so this post will be very short and somewhat uninteresting. The talk was attended by a few, including a Slovenian that I had met at the banquet the night before. I don’t know [...]
(I recently learned that I may be naming these posts incorrectly. If anyone who knows Greek can tell me, please do)
After the ordeal on Wednesday, I had a mission Thursday: get a phone that would work in Greece. I wasn’t all that interested in the talks that were being given that day, so [...]
It was a fairly uneventful day at the conference today, with quite a few talks on robotics, and working on my presentation for Friday. The conference hotel is large and fancy, reminding me why we didn’t stay there (it is >100€ a night). There was some confusion at registration, because I was using [...]
Well, I arrived yesterday at Eleftherios Venizelos airport around 4:30pm. I finally found some power at the Madrid Barajas airport next to some nice chairs, and plugged in, I didn’t have any problems. I’m still surprised how few are available. The only thing I can figure is that most people don’t use [...]
I’ve started on my first trip to countries that aren’t English-speaking today. I don’t really have any time at my destination today, so it’s a prelude to the real deal. I’m headed to Greece - Athens and Kos in particular, for a couple of weeks in order to attend MED 2007 and ECC [...]