Apple CEO Tim Cook is having a wonderful European adventure

Apple CEO Tim Cook is in Europe and he’s having a wonderful time.

We know this because Cook has been publicly sharing updates about his travels with his 4.1 million Twitter followers, posting a stream of new photos with the zeal of a work colleague flooding their friends’ timelines with vacation photos.

While it looks like Cook is having a blast in his posted photos, it’s a business trip. A French startup CEO told Business Insider that Apple people contacted him 10 days ago to help set up one of Cook’s meetings, so that he could learn more about French app developers. Cook is also set to give a speech at the University of Glasgow in Scotland on Wednesday.

Even so, Cook appears to be eating well, meeting interesting people, and even testing out his foreign language skills. And he’s dutifully chronicling it all on Twitter – of Cook’s 328 total tweets, 8 of them are from this trip.

So far this week, he’s visited France and Germany, and the trip’s not over yet.

Here’s a quick look at his European travels:

The public portion of Cook’s trip started when he dropped into an Apple Store in Marseille, France.

Then Cook met up with Jean claude Luong, who said he spent two hours with Apple’s CEO. Luong had taken a photograph that was used in Apple’s “shot with iPhone campaign. “

Apparently Cook wanted to know how he got the shot.

That wasn’t the only Apple Store Cook visited that day. He popped into a Paris store late in the day.

Now in Paris, Cook spent time meeting interesting people, like fashion designer Julien Fournié, in his couture studio.

Cook also found time to meet the CEO of BPCE, France’s second largest bank.

And chat with some French journalists.

Here’s the complete interview, although it’s in French.

Then he had a meal hosted in the home of a Parisian. The meal included salmon filets in creamy lemon shallot sauce, and was organized through an app called VizEat.

Here’s the entire menu for the meal.

Of course, he needs to check out what the cool new apps are in France, too.

He wrapped up the Paris part of his trip with a visit to artist JR’s studio.

Apparently, the artist wanted him to take a look at a 13-year old computer.

Cook made his way to Germany, just across the Rhine river, next. Here’s Tim checking out the factory of the company that builds the tables for Apple Stores and the Apple headquarters.

Finally, Cook visited a kitchen in Berlin run by cooking app Kitchen Stories. Here, he’s showing nice form flipping what appears to be a pancake of some sort, perhaps the famous German Apfelpfannkuchen.

Nailed it.

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On Wednesday, Cook will give a speech at the historic University of Glasgow. He’ll also receive an honorary degree.

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