{"id":400,"date":"2017-11-05T21:10:53","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T21:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/?p=400"},"modified":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:39:19","slug":"cop-23-day-0-travel-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.swarthmore.edu\/cop\/2017\/11\/05\/cop-23-day-0-travel-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"COP 23, Day 0: Travel Adventures"},"content":{"rendered":"

This begins our blog series about the Swarthmore delegation’s experience at the Conference of the Parties (COP) in Bonn, Germany.\u00a0 The COP is a yearly\u00a0conference that has been held every year since the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change was\u00a0created in 1991 (this year is number 23, hence COP 23). We’ll be talking more about various aspects of the UNFCCC and the goals of COP 23 in the upcoming days, but we wanted to start with a brief travel update.<\/p>\n

We made it! After a red-eye Lufthansa flight with not enough legroom and little sleep, we (students Aaron Metheny and Kyle Richmond-Crosset, and Professor Jennifer Peck) arrived in Frankfurt, Germany at about 7am Sunday.<\/p>\n

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Aaron is about 30% awake after our flight.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We had some logistical difficulties, including a baggage claim scare and missing the stop on our train from Frankfurt to Bonn (note to Week 2 delegation: it turns out there is a stop between Frankfurt and Cologne!), but we eventually made it to Zur Post, a small, delightful hotel about 4km from the city center in Bonn. We found a great Greek restaurant nearby for lunch and then promptly took three-hour naps.<\/p>\n