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Sylwester Arabas: miscellanea

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🧩 HOBBIES

• ⛰️ hiking:
  • 🇦🇩 Andorra: Arinsal - Mounicou
  • 🇧🇦 Bosnia: Maglic
  • 🇺🇸 California: Kearsarge pass from Onion Valley
  • 🇺🇸 Colorado: Westcliffe - Lakes of the Clouds; around Flatirons
  • 🇫🇴 Faroes: Bour - Gasadalur; Kirkja - Hattarvik
  • 🇫🇷 France: Cauterets - Marcadeau - Banos de Panticosa; Corte - Gorges du Tavignano; La Plagne - Notre-Dame-du-Pre (ski-tour)
  • 🇩🇪 Germany: a ski-tour near Garmisch; around Niederwalddenkmal
  • 🇬🇷 Greece: Parnitha, Hymettus, Fonias Valley @ Samothraki, Dimosaris Gorge @ Evia
  • 🇮🇸 Iceland: Seydisfjordur - Egilsstadir; Dettifoss - Krafla
  • 🇺🇸 Indiana: Turkey Run State Park
  • 🇮🇹 Italy: around Sella Nevea in summer; Corno Grande from Albergo di Campo Imperatore
  • 🇯🇵 Japan: Minotoguchi - Akadake - Amida - Kiyosato; Asahidake onsen - Asahidake - Sounkyo; Iwaobetsu - Rausu daira; Shiga - Bunagatake - Bomura; Daisen-ji - Daisen - Oyasumi-toge - Ikkoganaru; Nishiawakura - Komanooyama - Ainomura park; short hikes in the Rokko Mountain Range; around Aso-san
  • 🇰🇷 Korea: Amnam and Geumgang parks in Busan
  • 🇱🇧 Lebanon: Al Shouf
  • 🇲🇰 Macedonia: Popova Sapka - Titov Vrv
  • 🇳🇴 Norway: Skei - Fauskavatnet; Myrdal - Flam; short hikes in Lofoten
  • 🇵🇱 Poland: Tatry, Beskidy, Pieniny, Sudety, ...
  • 🇷🇴 Romania: Durau - Cabana Dochia
  • 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scotland: Ben Nevis; a glimpse of Glen Coe and the Trotternish, short hikes across Orkney and Shetland
  • 🇸🇰 Slovakia: Tatry (incl. Rysy, Kriváň, Poľský hrebeň, Bystrá lávka, Ostrý Roháč), Slovensky raj, around Morske oko, ...
  • 🇪🇸 Spain: Torla - Monte Perdido - Bielsa
  • 🇺🇦 Ukraine: short hikes along Borzhava river (Zakarpattia)
• 🚞 train travels:
  • 🇵🇱 from Kraków/Warsaw to: 🇸🇰 Bratislava, 🇩🇪 Berlin, 🇧🇪 Brussels, 🇭🇺 Budapest, 🇩🇪 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, 🇷🇺 Moscow, 🇫🇷 Paris, 🇨🇿 Prague, 🇧🇦 Sarajevo, 🇦🇹 Vienna
  • 🇧🇪 from Brussels to: Luxembourg, Antwerp, London
  • 🇨🇴 Bogotá-Zipaquirá
  • 🇫🇮 Helsinki-St. Petersburg 🇷🇺
  • 🇫🇷 around Corsica; (Mainz-)Paris-Lyon-Grenoble
  • 🇬🇷 from Thessaloniki to Istambul 🇹🇷
  • 🇮🇹 Milan-Venice
  • 🇯🇵 from Kobe to: Kochi, Nagasaki, Nishiawakura, Toyama, Tokyo, Yonago; from Tokyo to Chino, Tsukuba; Hokkaido: Senmō Main Line
  • 🇰🇷 Seoul-Pusan
  • 🇳🇴 Oslo-Bergen, Oslo-Bodø
  • 🇵🇹 Lisbon-Porto
  • 🇪🇸 Barcelona-Madrid, Vigo-Ourense, Badajoz-Lisbon
  • 🇨🇭 Zurich-Davos, Geneva-Sion
  • 🇺🇸 from Urbana, IL to: New Orleans, Detroit, Rockville MD; New York City-Baltimore; Denver-San Francisco

• 🎸 various tunes in the spirit of (in my own chronological order, italics mark attended live performances): Marek Grechuta, Phil Collins, Czesław Niemen, Elektryczne Gitary, Omega, Pink Floyd (Waters, Mason), RHCP, Perfect, Kult, Maanam, Sting, U2, Iron Maiden, Blind Guardian, Lhasa de Sela, Kroke, Tyr, Dikta, Janusz Muniak, Ibrahim Maalouf, Peyk, Avishai Cohen, Selah Sue, Ash ...

• 🛩️ aviation museums: East Fortune 🇬🇧, Berlin Gatow 🇩🇪, Krakow 🇵🇱, Lelystad 🇳🇱, Le Bourget 🇫🇷, Yesilkoy 🇹🇷, Toulouse 🇫🇷: A380 assembly line, A321 assembly line and Aeroscopia, Brussels 🇧🇪, Tokorozawa 🇯🇵, Concorde Barbados 🇧🇧, Sintra 🇵🇹, Singapore 🇸🇬, Intrepid NYC 🇺🇸, Vantaa 🇫🇮, ICAO Montreal 🇨🇦, Dayton WPAFB 🇺🇸, Smithsonian Air & Space in D.C. 🇺🇸, Gimpo 🇰🇷, MoF Seattle WA 🇺🇸, 777 assembly line/Everett, WA 🇺🇸, ...

• 🐊 SAABs

  

  

  

• 📽️ movies: Bill Murray, Bond movies (been to Piz Gloria!), Northern Exposure (been to Roslyn!), ...

• 🎮 games: GoldenEye 64 (still playing...)

🎓 ALMAE MATRES

• University of Illinois, Dept. Atmospheric Sciences
  (postdoc with prof. Nicole Riemer, 2021 - 2022)
• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics
  (PhD with prof. Hanna Pawlowska, 2008 - 2013)
• University of Warsaw, Faculty of Physics
  (MSc with prof. Hanna Pawlowska, 2002 - 2008, 350 ECTS)
• Stanislaw Staszic high school, Warsaw (1998 - 2002)
• Karol Kurpinski primary musical school, Warsaw (1990 - 1996)
• 69-th elem. school, Warsaw (1990 - 1998)

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