Erasmusu in Sweden (Pablo en)
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An entire year living in Sweden gives to you hundreds of experiences. And not all of them can be gathered in only one blog. This blog collect little experieces in Sweden, pieces of advise, unnoticed details, etc (en)
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Ice love
The fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light consisted on different light installations designed by artists which involved light as a tool to reference to the love of this city. All of them were beautiful, but the one that I most liked was this one. Iskärlek,...
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Love - a tribute to Umeå and its inhabitants
In the middle of town, on one of the most central locations in Umeå – the Vasagatan façade, the ligth installation ”Love - a tribute to Umeå and its inhabitants” was chosen to be placed., in the context of the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light....
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1000s lamps
The fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light consisted on different light installations designed by artists which involved light as a tool to reference to the love of this city. But, despite being designed by specialist, the community was also involved on it....
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The Night Forest
As I told you in other post, during the month of November, the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light was inaugurated. It consisted of different light installations with love as the basis at various locations in central Umeå. Several of these light...
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Festival Umeå Autumn light
On Friday, November 19, 2010 the fifth edition of the Festival Umeå Autumn light was ingaugurated. With the theme;Love in Umeå,; reflected the festival of love, the love of the city, to each other, to the light or perhaps the unfortunate love. Love characterizes our...
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A young city for young people
As I told you, Umea is a very young city. It has to be it, since it was named Youth Municipality of the Year in 2008. This award was given due to the great effort of the city the involvement of the young people and its future. The young character of the Umea city is...
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A University city
Umea is a young city. Not only because of his recent history but due to the quick development since 1965, when the university was established. The importance of its 2 universities, Umea University and the Forestry School of SLU (the Swedish University of Agricultural...
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Umea, the sunny city?
It is really funny to see how Umea citizens are very proud of the amount of annual hours of sunshine they have. In several touristic information I have always read: “Come to Umea, the city with more than 1800 annual hours of sunshine! ” Ok, it is possible than they...
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Rivalry between neighbours.
Is it very interesting how history marks the development of the relationships between countries. In Spain, we have always studied at school about the historically rivalry between Spain, England and France, since it concerned very much. But this kind of rivalry has...
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A Fast development
Umea was built in 1622 but until last decades it has not been a very important city in Sweden. The harsh climate, the long distance with the capital and the repetitive fires and Russians invasions that have devastated it are the reason. But since the middle of the last...
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The city devasted by fires
Birches are a very common tree in the nature lands along Sweden. But even though it, Umea is very well known in Sweden and other parts of the world as the City of Birches. Everywhere you walk in the city you will find them in the streets and parks. Silver birches, with...
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An history without luck
Although Umea was founded in the early 1620’s, if you walk through its streets you won’t find any old building. You can not compare Umea with other Erasmus destinations in this sense. Therefore, Umea is not best known by its touristic places, although it can offer...
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The origin of Umea
Umea city is a young city. But it is not only due to the big proportion of young people that can be found here. I is also because it was founded not very long ago, if we compared with other main cities of Europe. The Umea city was raised up in 1622 and nowadays the...
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Urban art in Umea
Umea is a young city. Due to the university, almost ¼ of the Umea population is young (not official data XD). You can realize of that in the amount of clubs and young shops that are in the main places of the city. For example, which city has a club in the middle of the...
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The giant fingerprint
Do you remember the post about the Space Invader in Umea? It seems that it is not the only example of famous urban art in this young city. In many walls across the city you can find also examples of giant fingerprints. It doesn’t mean that a giant human have been...
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Space Invaders in Umea!!!!!
Have you ever heard about the Space Invaders? Maybe most of you recognise it due to the arcade video game from the 1980’s. The famous video game in which you have to shoot rows of aliens moving horizontally in the screen. It is a classic! Actually they are invading...
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Snow in the airport
I’m sure most of you, Erasmus students, remember the airport chaos of this winter due to the snow storms. Many flights were delayed or cancelled, costing a lot of time and money for those who wanted to go back home since a long time ago to enjoy Christmas with your...
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Stockholm airports
There are 4 airports near Stockholm that can be used by you or your family or friends to go to Umea: Arlanda, Skavsta, Vasteras and Bromma. Arlanda is the main airport and have the best connection with Umea, although it is not very close to the capital and you have to...
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Shopping in the airport.
It is very common that flight combinations force you to spend many hours in the airport to travel between Spain and your city. So you should prepare things to do during these periods. Go and check shops! It can take most of the time you spend there. There are always...
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A place to relax in Arlanda
When you travel between Spain and Umea, you usually spend many hours in the Arlanda airport. And sometimes it means spend the night there. By luck, Arlanda airport is very suitable for doing it. It is quite quiet and safe. And it also has many comfortable armchairs or...
