Archive for the Wines Category
Les Rouquins
Posted in pictures, University life, Wines with tags 14ième arrondissement, CREST, INSEE, Les Rouquins, Les Vins du Soleil, Paris, Pernetty, wine bar on October 20, 2017 by xi'an
back to ca’ Foscari, Venezia
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags ABC, Ca' Foscari University, convergence of ABC, ESOBE, Italia, tutorial, Venezia on October 16, 2017 by xi'an
I am off to Venezia this afternoon for a Franco-Italian workshop organised by my friends Monica Billio, Roberto Casarin, and Matteo Iacopini, from the Department of Economics of Ca’ Foscari, almost exactly a year after my previous trip there for ESOBE 2016. (Except that this was before!) Tomorrow, I will give both a tutorial [for the second time in two weeks!] and a talk on ABC, hopefully with some portion of the audience still there for the second part!
Morey-Saint-Denis
Posted in pictures, Travel, Wines with tags andouille de Vire, Bourgogne, Burgundy wines, Côte de Nuits, France, French wines, Morey-Saint-Denis on September 20, 2017 by xi'an
zurück nach Wien
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Austria, Book, Die Zauberflöte, mixtures of distributions, opera, Vienna, Volksoper Wien, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, WU Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien on September 16, 2017 by xi'an
Today, I am travelling to Vienna for a few days, primarily for assessing a grant renewal for a research consortium federating most Austrian research groups on a topic for which Austria is a world-leader. (Sorry for being cryptic but I am unsure how much I can disclose about this assessment!) And taking advantage on being in Vienna, for a two-day editing session with Sylvia Früwirth-Schnatter and Gilles Celeux on our Handbook of mixtures analysis project. Which started a few years ago with another meeting in Vienna. And taking further advantage on being in Vienna, for an evening at the Volksoper, conveniently playing Die Zauberflöte!
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slow food all’italiani
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, Wines with tags Brunello di Montalcino, chocolate mousse, Italian wines, Milano, rabbit, slow food, squid, trattoria on September 3, 2017 by xi'an
Coste-Moynier
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags Coste-Moynier, Coteaux du Languedoc, French wines, Grés de Montpellier, Languedoc wines, Saint Christol on August 20, 2017 by xi'an
at the foot of Monte Rosa
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, Wines with tags climbing, Dufourspitze, hiking, Italia, Macugnana, Monte Rosa, rain, running, snow, Switzerland on August 16, 2017 by xi'an
After last-year failed attempt at climbing a summit in the Monte Rosa group, we came back for hiking on the “other side” of Monte Rosa, at the Italian foot of Dufourspitze with less ambitious plans of hiking around this fantastic range. Alas the weather got set against us and thunderstorms followed one another, making altitude hikes unreasonable because of the fresh snow and frequent fog, and lower altitude walks definitely unpleasant, turning the trails into creeks.
While we had many nice chats with local people in a mixture of French and Italian, and sampled local cheese and beers, this still felt like a bit of a wasted vacations week, especially when remembering how reasonable the weather had been the week before in Scotland. However, all things considered, the previous week had seen a deadly heat wave cross the south of Europe that very week, so I should not be complaining about rain and snow! And running a whole week checking the altimeter instead of the chronometer is a nice experience.
