Since Roman left, I have not been up to much. It has gotten much colder and I am getting increasingly sleepier during all hours of the day. I now wear my pajama pants under my jeans to avoid freezing and at least three layers on top. It got so bad on Tuesday, that I wore [...]
Country #11 Monaco
Destination # 21 Monaco
After a short ride, Roman and I arrived in Monaco. After exiting the train station, we walked around Monte Carlo. The country is the most densely populated in the world as the wealthy from across Europe buy up properties to escape income taxes. The country is very clean and sophisticated [...]
The day started out with some breakfast at the hotel. As Roman checked out, he was tacked on with a 70 euro charge for having me over for the night. Now Roman knows the European tradition of nickel and diming people. We boarded our train at 11 AM to Nice and it would be a [...]
After having a difficult time sleeping on Tuesday night, I overslept Wednesday morning and did not have enough time to get ready and get to my class that morning. When I got out of the shower, I studied the powerpoint for that lecture until it was time to meet Roman at his hotel.
Roman is my [...]
The past few days actually have been pretty interesting. On Tuesday after class, I went to check my reservation for my expected visit to Leonardo Da Vinci’s Last Supper painting on Wednesday. However, when I logged on to site with the reservation, it was gone. I checked through my e-mail records and then clicked on [...]
My time studying abroad in Bocconi has allowed me to travel extensively throughout Europe and North Africa. Based on my experiences, I feel that study abroad serves a better alternative to the classic summer Eurotrip. You can cover as much ground, but in a more relaxed time frame that allows you to truly experience where [...]
Not much has gone on since I wrote my last post. I have gone to class, listened to some podcasts, studied a little, and conducted some financial research. I have also used some of my free time to watch movies: Fargo, Up!, and Where the Wild Things Are. I don’t understand why people like Fargo [...]
The biggest lesson I have learned about myself from studying abroad is my intolerance of cold weather. I know my complaining of sub 60 degree (15 Celsisus) weather has been a theme of my journey, but for some region it really bothers me and hurt my productivity. The weather has been that way (now 40’s) [...]
On Thursday I met Matt at the train station to show him around Milan. Matt is in town because he came with me to Morocco this past weekend and we had an early morning flight. After dropping his stuff off (and my Morocco stuff in his suitcase) at a hostel by the train station, our [...]
On Sunday night, I returned from Lisbon back to cold and dreary Milan. Ever since the day before I left to Portugal, the temperature has plummeted. It now averages a high in the low 50’s and the days are filled with dark gray overcast and patches of rain. As someone who has lived in southern [...]
The weeks of work are finally over. Since I will be traveling every weekend six of the next seven weekends, I decided to focus on studies and projects the past few weeks. Milan is not that entertaining or fun of a city so it was not much of a sacrifice.
However, my family sent me a [...]
I have not updated the blog in a while because I have busy with the weeks of work stuff (or just tired and sleepy from always being focused). On Thursday morning, I set up some errands that I needed to do when I return to UCSB when I woke up. I planned on debating my [...]
I have now been studying at Bocconi for a little over a month now. I decided to write my overall impressions for the past month.
The Good: The food is great here. As a fan of Italian food before I have arrived, the Italian food in Italy trumps any equivalent in the United States. The only [...]
The past three days have been rather ordinary, so I will probably mention some other things related to my personal development and current attitude that I have while I am here. I am trying to make this week, the “Week of Mayhem” where I completely throw myself in embracing Milan and my travel destinations this [...]
On Friday I woke up and attended a rescheduled International Monetary Economics class. After class I bought my books for class and then went to the metro towards the central station. On the way, I ran into a street market filled with food and sales on clothes.
At the station, I reserved a seat for tomorrow’s [...]
Today I did not have class until 12:30, so I slept in until 10 AM and did not get anything important done that morning. I had two classes today, another History of Economic Thought lecture, and my first class of Financial Markets. The financial markets class was interesting and I think I volunteered to speak [...]
As you may know previously, my website got corrupted and in an attempt to restore it, I lost all of my data from June 2008 to present. Why does this kind of stuff always seem to happen to me. I am kind of a like a living hurricane, and things always unintentionally seem to get [...]
Due to my website crashing, I lost post #1 (didn’t say much), and posts 7-8. However, I had preserved posts 2-5 that cover my arrival to Italy and trip to Florence. At the bottom of this post, I will recap posts 6-8.
Here is an archived recap of Nick’s International Adventures parts 2-6:
Country #1 United Kingdom
Destination [...]