Tag: paris

• A moveable feast

  

  I have lived in Paris for eighteen months. Or, rather, I have lived in Paris proper for six months. For the year before that, I lived in Orsay, a small town in a far southern extremity of the city. Close enough to be in Zone 5 on the RER, but distant enough that it was…

  Natalie Hogg

  October 8, 2023

  Academia, Postdoc

  Academia, favourite, france, living abroad, paris, personal, Postdoc, postdoc life, precariat, Travel

• From Madrid to the Cotswolds by train

  

  I can’t pretend to enjoy flying. It’s noisy, stressful and horrendously bad for the environment. On my last journey to Madrid, I took the ferry from Portsmouth to Santander and the train on from there. The ferry crossing itself took about thirty hours spread over two nights (with an evening departure and an early morning…

  Natalie Hogg

  December 18, 2021

  Academia, Postdoc, Travel

  ave, barcelona, champagne, channel tunnel, cotswolds, covid, eurostar, first class, flying, france, high speed, london, long distance, madrid, ouigo, paris, passport, rail, railways, renfe, sncf, spain, tgv, train travel, Travel, travelling

• Congres des Doctorants — a week in Paris

  

  Last week I attended the 26th annual Congres des Doctorants organised by students of the STEP’UP Doctoral School in Paris and hosted at the Institut de Physique du Globe, near the Pierre and Marie Curie campus of the Sorbonne. The doctoral school comprises physics and geosciences students from almost every university in Paris and I…

  Natalie Hogg

  March 31, 2019

  PhD, Travel

  conference, paris, PhD, Travel