Thinking back to the first blog, the week has literally flown by. I’d like to say a few words to my loyal fans, who have waited every evening in front of their computers for the blog to come online 😉 First of all, thank you too all the participants of the studytrip. Everybody has shown…

Up, up and away! Today we travelled even further north to the city of Uppsala. I know it might be hard to believe, but today we were able to sleep in today untill 7:15! Once again, the weather was beautiful. According to the locals the weather is absolutely unbelievable. It was around 18 degrees today,…

Today I greet you all from the center of Stockholm, Just down the street from the Stadshuset, the venue of the Nobel Prize banquet held each year. Inspired by this monument of scientific greatness, we continued our quest for knowledge with renewed energy. I don’t know if any of you have ever seen the metro of…

Fitting to an astronomer, I write this blog at a time when most of the people on the trip have cleverly concluded it is best to actually be in bed getting some hard needed rest for tomorrow, allas, this is the astronomers curse. As we struggled to get out of bed at 6 o’clock in…

We are officially on our way! After a very easy and roomy flight with KLM we landed in Copenhagen at 15:45 local time. So with this information I hope we have put all those at home at ease, everybody arrived here safe and sound. The hostel ‘Sleep in Heaven’ is quite the cozy place, with bunkbeds…