German beer, Italian passion, Spanish siesta, Swedish furniture, Polish builders, French women and English weather. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that sometimes we English students have a got a bum deal. If only there was a program that looks good on your CV, helps you learn a foreign language, lets you live
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“Mozart’s house, no way!” The familiar phrase I am used to hearing from over-zealous American tourists has become rather tiring. But their enthusiasm for Salzburg, Mozart’s birthplace, is entirely justified: it is quite simply one of the most beautiful places on earth. A World Heritage Site, the Old Town is a charming array of narrow
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We attend the Vrije Universitet Amsterdam, located on the outskirts of Amsterdam, near Amstelveen. Having been used to the student way of life in Leicester, the University here is completely different. The first thing we noticed was how little time we actually spend in the University. At Leicester we would have a minimum of 8
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Alone, my journey started on the 7th September when I left East Midlands Airport with Valencia as the destination. I had made the decision to go on Erasmus with careful consideration, Valencia with considerably less. As confident as I wanted to be prior to departure, my emotions were frantic and my thoughts erratic. I didn´t
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My first week in Bologna was certainly eventful. I arrived on a sunny September afternoon with nowhere to live, a very poor grasp of the Italian language and discovered my hotel was in the city’s red-light district.
I had a brief spell in the prison-like youth hostel where I was more traumatised by the lack of
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