During the school vacation we visited our friends in Lyon and their country house in Ardesh.


Ardesh 2024 - pub

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Modern art exhibition, including many items based on optical effects.


ArtIstanbul Feshane

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A guided walking tour along the Bosphorus, including two small museums.


Bebek & Arnavutkoy, Istanbul

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After Qingdao I visited Hefei. Thanks to Zhenzhu Wang for the invitation. There the scientific center is located on a separate peninsula far from the city centre. But most of photos are from the city itself.


Hefei 2023

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Second trip to China in 2023 was less than a month after the previous one. The main motivation was a workshop "Frontiers in Nanophotonics and Optoelectronics 2023" organized by Qingdao Innovation Centre of Harbin Engineering University. Thanks to Andrey Bogdanov for the invitation.


Qingdao 2023

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Finally, Doha airport on the way back from China.


Doha 2023

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From Nanjing to Hangzhou. Thanks to Lei Bi for the invitation.


Hangzhou 2023

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From Wuhan we went to Nanjing. Thanks to Chao Liu for the invitation.


Nanjing 2023

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A famous Chinese city, which Olena and I visited for a conference AERSS 2023 Annual Meeting.


Wuhan 2023

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Another part of Istanbul is Princes' Islands - a standard inclusion in any tour over the city. It is called so because many princes were exiled there during the Byzantine and Ottoman times.


Princes' Islands, Istanbul

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