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To my great pleasure I got there not as a tourist, but “on business”.


Flew charter "Taimyr" - "Taimyr" much nicer "Russia".


On the way there, quite a peaceful Russian tourists came across to me - no one even got drunk on what they had acquired in a dust shop, many were with children.


I will note the unequivocal usefulness of the iPad in the plane due to its size (more than other movie players) and long-playability (longer than standard laptops).


Upon arrival, I was greeted by a wonderful young man with the mythical name PARIS - and before his motorcycle and man’s car I drove, I had to walk a mile and a half - because taxi drivers are on strike and do not allow any other transport to the airport.

 

Locals complain that it is hot, but in fact - the same thirty degrees as in St. Petersburg. It is transferred normally.


They brought me here - The Institute of Electronic Structure and Laser

 


The Institute is located 10 km from the center of Heraklion.


At the entrance, just like on PhysFak lazy dogs are lying. But they are not allowed inside =)


 


Of course, I decided that this sign =)


Inside - air conditioning, in laboratories - professional. All vital installations are connected to a huge institute UPS - so if electricity jumps or is cut off, they can be turned off.


 

all inscriptions and announcements - in two languages, Greek and English - foreigners in research departments work somewhere around 30 percent, according to my observations.


The laboratory - the nonlinear interaction of ultrashort laser pulses, to which I arrived, is a rather large room, completely filled with very good equipment and an office where very nice theorists sit.


This is how the door to the laboratory looks like, you can only get inside by attaching a special card.


 


In the distance, the door to the laboratory of attosecond optics is visible - there is a separate stand. Who understands what it is, realizes how cool everything is there.


They came to work from 9 to 9-30, waited until 10-30 in the corridor for some reason, because their card was not there, and theorists were pulling in until noon. About 18 are supposed to leave, but due to good weather a rare person was met after 17-30. A separate topic is lunch. There is quite a decent dining room with a small but different menu from day to day. I did manage to eat (I did not look at the prices for dishes) from 3.50 to 6.70 for food - with the size, taste and nourishing of the portions - normal.


Lunch hour and a half (the Greeks) - with a conversation, with a cup of coffee, with a cigarette - many people smoke, although cigarettes here are much more expensive than ours.


And no wonder - at the canteen here is a terrace


 


blown by the wind (because there is not hot), with beautiful views


 


on the last day kote hung around the terrace and begged for food


 


 

You can leave the institute by car (there are a lot of them here)

 


on a bicycle (there is, but a little, like in St. Petersburg), on a scooter (there are many of them, as in Italy)


and on the bus


 


the bus number coincides with its final destination, because when the bus travels in one direction - it has number 11, and when it returns - 20 if it goes to the port or 1 if it goes to the airport.

all buses are air conditioned.


around the institute - olive plantations

 


they give off a constant itchy noise, because (I, just in case, peeped on the Internet) cicadas


 


And it is really loud. And always - both in the morning, and in the afternoon in a heat, and in the evening. It was not at night.


To the city by bus to go about 20 minutes, on the bike about the same.


Accommodation was provided to me in the building that the institute / university rents to students who come to practice (internship). Normal such a hut, nothing superfluous, studio + bedroom.


 


I did not know where it was, because there was no sign on the street. I photographed a sign on the street from which the one I wanted started.

 


I have now found this place on the map - the very center of the city.


Well, then I went for a walk for an hour and a half and just pofotkal all around. In general, basically I was looking for Wi-Fi - there’s a problem with it - worse than in Paris - all networks are closed and everywhere where the Internet is - they are not very fast (at the institute the Internet is quite to itself).


institution with an interesting name - right near the hut.





many, many scooters, they go on families - three on one

 


Narrow streets - dense traffic. Two buses regularly leave for a slightly wider network. I have never seen an accident, they don't drive fast, but the cars are all scratched from the sides =)

 


this is probably a police building, because I have never seen a police officer anywhere else


 


and there was some kind of violent disassembly right in front of him (I must say, I never met such moments anymore)


 


Heraklion - a port city


 


walked along the promenade, breathed


 

The fish are caught right there.





Capetans =)


 


from signs dual feelings - can be written completely in Cyrillic - and some kind of crap =)


Then there was the type of party. Guess who's what nationality


 


well then I flew back




So never