Erasmus tips

  • World of Discoveries in Porto: an interactive museum

    Porto World of Discoveries The World of Discoveries in located in Porto and is an interactive museum and park. The World of Discoveries encourages the visitors to travel back in time in a very imaginative way. It’s based on the Odyssey of Portugal, who discovered an...

    2 , 9 years ago
  • Queima das Fitas of Porto - A one week during festival you can't miss!

    Queima das Fitas of Porto In 1944 the first Queima das Fitas happened in Porto. This academic party always occurs in the first week of May, and there are several things to do all around the city. Students use to carry their schoolbooks with a briefcass (‘pasta’) on...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • São João festival of Porto

    São João do Porto History As I already told in my other blogpost, in Porto they celebrate the festival of São João in the night of June the twenty-third. Here I will go a little deeper into the history of the festival and the activities that are organized on this...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Majestic cafe Porto

    History Majestic cafe, a very fancy cafe located in the city centre of Porto, was built in 1921. In 1983, its attractiveness and its particular significance in Porto have brought it to be categorized as a spot of public-interest. Besides, it is also categorized as a...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Martial arts academy in Porto has discount for Erasmus students!

    Academia 77: Martial arts academy with discount for international students! Are you an Erasmus student in Porto, and you always wanted to practice martial arts? At Academia 77 you can find Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muay-Thai, Karaté Shinkyokushinkai and Boxing as well as a...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Red Balls pub crawl Porto - do you have the balls?

    Red Balls pub crawl Porto: do you have the balls? Are you fed up with visiting boring museums and churches, and do you want to have a very good time during your stay in Porto? Meeting other foreigners, hangout with the locals from Porto and visiting places that tourists...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • The best parties in Porto are with WOP!

    Wild Out Porto The organization in Porto that helps Erasmus students having the best time of their lives! What is WOP? As I told you in my other blogpost about my Erasmus experience in Porto, I started to work with Wild Out Porto (WOP) about 1, 5 year ago. WOP is an...

    1 , 9 years ago
  • Make a difference and volunteer!

    My experience as a volunteer in Porto: CASA- Centro de Apoio ao Sem Abrigo During your Erasmus period in Porto, you can participate in various volunteer projects. It’s an enriching experience and I would recommend everybody to try it at least once. I worked as a...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Tips to learn Spanish

    Spanish language is becoming more and more spoken worldwide. Currently there are about 500 million speakers on the globe. I have come across some predictions holding that sooner or later Spanish will take over the role of English as the lingua franca. Although, for now,...

    2 , 9 years ago
  • Learning the public transportation of Thessaloniki part 2

    Bus no 31: It starts from the eastern part of Thessaloniki called ''Vulgari'' and it drives until the main bus station ''KTEL''. The main bus station of KTEL. Source Bus no 32 : It starts from a region named 'Kato Iliupoli' and goes until the main square...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • 500 Erasmus-students, 4 days, one goal: PARTY!

    500 Erasmus-students, 4 days, 1 destination and 1 mission: PARTY! During my Erasmus stay in Porto, I spent 4 nights and 3 days in the Algarve with more than 500 (!) other international students of Portugal. The trip was organized by the Erasmus Student Network (ESN): an...

    4 , 9 years ago
  • Learning the public transport of Thessaloniki

    If you want to get around Thessaloniki, the only mean of transportation that exists is the bus. Currently, the subway is being built, but it will take a long long time until it will be finally ready for use. Until then, the residents of Thessaloniki use the public buses...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Instructions of Vida (screw) card game

    Every country has some specific games that you can feel much more ''cool and local '' when you learn how to play them. The easiest kind of games are the games that are played with cards, because some rules are being taken from more international games. One of these...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Transport outside of Salamanca

    Previously I have already explained how to get around within Salamanca and in the outskirts. Now, I would also like to tell you how to travel between cities and how to get to the airport. Coaches The most often used means of transport in Spain are coaches. There are...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • 38 semana cine e idiomas

    Despite the high number of international students in Salamanca, for some reason, the problem of the lack of movies in English has still not been solved. It is a big question for me that in a city full of thousands of Erasmus students every single year, why not to play...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Non-stop party in Poseidi camping part 1

    Dear Erasmus students of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Before choosing which semester you want to live your Erasmus experience in Thessaloniki, you should consider that if you choose the summer semester, you will be able to be here in summer and visit a very...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Virtual culinary tour: Typical Spanish dishes, desserts and drinks

    I always say that if I had to choose my home country based on its gastronomy, it would be Italy without hesitation. I love pasta, I love pizza, I love lasagne… However, I have to admit that I am positively surprised in the Spanish cuisine. Not like I had any...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • Ring of fire drinking game !

    Drinking games are widely famous all around the world from young people to get easily drunk while having fun. There are thousands of different kinds of drinking games, some more easy and some more ‘hardcore’. In this article, I will focus on my...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • The Ultimate Pleasure of "Greek Gyros"!

    Gyros along with souvlaki are the number one fast food in Greece. It is a really delicious food, extremely cheap for its size and very easy to find and taste it, indeed you can find it everywhere in Thessaloniki, and when I say everywhere I truly mean in almost every...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • You should participate in exchange programme

    Exchange programmes are very good for people, who want to travel and sightsee and get new knowledge, etc. You should seek to participate in any of them, as it gives you great experience, first of all. This is a great opportunity, and, as I have said somewhere in a...

    2 , 9 years ago

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