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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Sapmi or Samiland
The Sami are the indigenous (native population) people who lives in Finland, Norsway; Russia and Sweden. The word “Sami” comes from Sápmi, which represents the geographical territory of the traditional Sami settlement region as wellas as the Sami people themselves....
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A day in the airport
One of the bad things of living in Umea is that it is so far that you need to take a plane to go almost everywhere. It usually means to make a transfer of flights and spent many hours in Arlanda airport, the main airport of Stockholm. By general, you usually spend...
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Taking a Coffee
Winters are cold and dark in the North of Sweden. The long days without sunlight and always surrounded by the same walls of the university or your room make you feel very lazy. Therefore it is important to do something different for not falling into depression (in fact,...
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Missing Tapas =(
I really love Sweden and Umea. But there are a lot of things that I miss so much from Spain. For example, the social live in Spain is great and Sweden has nothing to compare with it. During winter, people don’t usually go out of their houses if not necessary (when...
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Don\'t sleep!!
It is very common that flight combinations force you to spend many hours in the airport to travel between Spain and your city. Sometimes you are very tired because of the stress of travelling and you really need to rest. But sleeping is not usually a good idea, since...
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Ice hockey
Spain and Sweden are different, as you may realized from what I have been telling you the last months. One of the differences is in hobbies. For example, while in Spain most of people enjoy watching or playing football or basketball, in Sweden winter sports are the...
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The ice hockey match of Umea team (I)
Being so important and typical from the Nord of Europe, I couldn’t miss such experience. I was excited to see something new here in Umea. So I went once with the Buddy Group to watch the match Björklöven-Kalix. I and Hernán were going to take the bus to the Stadium...
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The ice hockey match of Umea team (II)
The ticket cost us 40 kr for a place in the home part. There weren’t too many people since the other team wasn’t very good (the final score was 8-0 for Umea) although they supported the team like the best. I’m sure it wasn’t the most exciting match ever but I...
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Cross country ski
Spain and Sweden are different, as you may realized from what I have been telling you the last months. One of the differences is in hobbies. For example, while in Spain most of people enjoy watching or playing football or basketball, in Sweden winter sports are the most...
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Walking in the airport
Many times flight combinations when travelling to/from your Erasmus place force you to spend many hours in the airport so you should prepare things to do during these periods. Airports are not usually very funny, but they can hide interesting places to see. Many big...
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People-watching
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. There are many things to do in airports. Watching people is a way to spend the time....
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Snacks in the airport.
Many times flight combinations when travelling to/from your Erasmus place force you to spend many hours in the airport so you should prepare things to do during these periods. A good way to spent time and keep awake is eating. You always can find many places to eat in...
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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...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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...
