Europe

I’ve never “lived” in Europe, aside from the time I taught at the University of Amsterdam for a semester. But I do end up spending a lot of time here, especially since moving to Egypt.

It feels like “countless” trips to this continent, but the number is eminently countable, since I always keep detailed records of travel. It turns out that this is my 75th trip to Europe, the first having occurred in 1989. The cities where I’ve spent the most time here, in order:

1. Amsterdam
2. Paris
3. London
4. Leipzig
5. Bremen
6. Prague
7. Berlin
8. Warsaw
9. Dublin
10. Venice

steamboats

Leaving Southampton early this morning, after yesterday’s excellent defense by James Dolwick of his excellent ANT’ish thesis on early steamboat history. It was as interesting a doctoral thesis as I’ve ever seen, and will no doubt be an influential book in the near future. I was the external examiner on this thesis, and was very glad for the opportunity.

What I’m not so glad about is the shortness of this trip to the UK, just 52 hours in total. But office work beckons back in Cairo.