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After another hot(!) day in Rome in our stuffy meeting Rome, we (that is the PhD's and the one postdoc from ETH. And me. I'am not a PhD student. Yet) decided to eat near the river with a take away pizza to enjoy the sunset. At least, that was the idea. Getting a take-away pizza was easy, so that part of the plan went fairly well. However, Y. (the postdoc and my soon-to-be-supervisor) was the only one who knew how to get near the river (or so she claimed), so we all followed her. As it turned out, there is no way to get to the river. And the pizzas were getting cold by then. And we were hungry. So what do you do then?
Exactly: you just sit down wherever you happen to be and eat your pizza with your coke (and beers for the guys) on the street like a hobo in Rome. The place where we decided to sit down was next to a closed playground and a (not quite so deserted) car washing. Classy.
At least the pizza was good (and super thin! I have never ever had a pizza that was so thin. Very Italian apparently).
On the way back to the hotel, the L. (the Italian PhD) fancied an ice cream. No one else really wanted an ice cream (I mean, I definitely wanted one. I craved one, but I opted not to say anything about my fervent desire for ice cream, lest I look weird.. :p), but because PhD's tend to stick together, the 4 of us went with L. for an ice cream anyway.
Then we stepped into ice cream HEAVEN. I have never seen so many flavours of ice cream in my entire life. And I am not overreacting! I have proof. Behold a very small selection of the flavours of ice cream (they actually had 5 of these major units of ice cream, so the total amount of flavours was easily 50):
An entire (tank? container?) thing with only chocolate flavours. All different kinds of chocolate. Oh my. I told you I was in heaven right? I tried the chocolate and mint flavour and I definitely recommend it!
The more standard Italian ice cream flavours
All the fruity flavours! I had mango.
And then of course I had to make a picture of everyone thoroughly enjoying their ice cream (did I mention that as soon as everyone stepped into the ice cream heaven EVERYONE decided to have an ice cream? I fact, I was the one with the smallest ice cream, as I had only 2 flavours and no cream!).
Nice earthquake numerical modelling PhD's from Zurich in ice cream heaven (R. (German guy), L. (Italian guy), guy from the ice cream heaven, C. (Dutch guy)).
Exactly: you just sit down wherever you happen to be and eat your pizza with your coke (and beers for the guys) on the street like a hobo in Rome. The place where we decided to sit down was next to a closed playground and a (not quite so deserted) car washing. Classy.
At least the pizza was good (and super thin! I have never ever had a pizza that was so thin. Very Italian apparently).
On the way back to the hotel, the L. (the Italian PhD) fancied an ice cream. No one else really wanted an ice cream (I mean, I definitely wanted one. I craved one, but I opted not to say anything about my fervent desire for ice cream, lest I look weird.. :p), but because PhD's tend to stick together, the 4 of us went with L. for an ice cream anyway.
Then we stepped into ice cream HEAVEN. I have never seen so many flavours of ice cream in my entire life. And I am not overreacting! I have proof. Behold a very small selection of the flavours of ice cream (they actually had 5 of these major units of ice cream, so the total amount of flavours was easily 50):
An entire (tank? container?) thing with only chocolate flavours. All different kinds of chocolate. Oh my. I told you I was in heaven right? I tried the chocolate and mint flavour and I definitely recommend it!
The more standard Italian ice cream flavours
All the fruity flavours! I had mango.
And then of course I had to make a picture of everyone thoroughly enjoying their ice cream (did I mention that as soon as everyone stepped into the ice cream heaven EVERYONE decided to have an ice cream? I fact, I was the one with the smallest ice cream, as I had only 2 flavours and no cream!).
Nice earthquake numerical modelling PhD's from Zurich in ice cream heaven (R. (German guy), L. (Italian guy), guy from the ice cream heaven, C. (Dutch guy)).
