General

  • N/A

    A Southeast Asian journey while uni is out. Part One: Hoi An

    Students have the best and the worst deal. We have oodles of free time and yet that time should be filled with studying. Intellectual investigation. Essays. Short tests. Exams. Assignments... and yet we want the social life, gourmet treats and the never ending travel...

    1 , 6 years ago
  • N/A

    Saturday night at the bar: a football classic

    It may not be the clasico par excellence, pitting the Barcelona Football Club against their arch rival, the long-despised Real Madrid team. However, the match between theblaugranaand the other main team from the capital, Atletico Madrid, is in any case a contest which...

    0 , 11 years ago
  • N/A

    No place like Home

    Celebrating Christmas within walking distance from the sea would have been a bit strange for me. As a matter of fact, I am accustomed to spend the Christmas holidays in Northern Italy, with a fairly different weather (quite cold, wet, and rainy or, in the best of cases,...

    0 , 11 years ago
  • N/A

    Waiting for...el gordo

    If in Christmas time you hear a Spaniard mentioning the word "gordo", he is referring neither to a particularly fat person nor to the former Brazilian football player Ronaldo, who was called in that way exactly for his excessive weight. As a matter of fact, el gordo is...

    0 , 11 years ago
  • N/A

    Halfway to the glory

    "Molt bè, molt bè!" "¡Venga, venga, venga!" With 3 kilometres still to go, I was starting to feel really tired, and doubted for the first time about successfully concluding my race. It was the support of the numerous bystanders, who were crowding the streets of...

    4 , 11 years ago
  • N/A

    Vilanova Half Marathon: -4

    Today, back home after the training session, a relaxing 10-kilometres run (I would have said "placid", but it does not seem to be a suitable adjective for a runner!) I could feel quite satisfied. The body had given me quite a positive feedback, leaving me under the...

    0 , 11 years ago
  • N/A

    About EB

    At the age of 26, after achieving a degree in Foreign Languages at the University of Ferrara and a qualification in teaching Spanish which will probably prove useless (but that is another long, sad story), I decided to try my luck abroad. Thanks to the Comenius...

    1 , 11 years ago
  • N/A

    Yes... But, who are you?

    Hello! ... Do you hear me, now? ... Hello? Yes, but... Who are you? ... You should know it, now. ? I was waiting for you... Maybe do you know what I mean? ? Same as you. ... Not sure to understand. Could you not guess it? Hum... Well, I don't have so much time. So......

    0 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    London 2012: Becoming a Games Maker

    London 2012 Becoming  a Games Maker I was lucky enough to spend summer 2012 as a Games Maker for Olympic Games taking place in London. I had a role as a Protocol Team member in the Water Polo Arena and the Protocol Team was linked with the Languages and Services Team...

    0 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    Carnaval de Cádiz - Day 4

    Sunday 10thFebruary I must admit that I was still somewhat tipsy when I woke up at 11am, I popped onto Skype to see what the girls were up to, they were meeting at 12.30pm at Burger King for something to eat, so I got dressed and decided to meet them there. I met Claire...

    2 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    Carnaval de Cádiz - Day 3

    Saturday 9thFebruary Despite it being the first morning for a while that I had been able to have a proper lie in, I was unable to sleep past 10.30am, so feeling wide and awake I decided to do a couple of jobs around the house that I had been meaning to do. It was the...

    2 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    Despedida de Jana

    In the week before Carnaval the four of us who live in the Plaza de Mina flat received an e-mail from Ana, our landlady asking if we wanted to have a ‘Despedida de Jana’, she offered to make us all one of her paellas. We of course said yes! Who can turn down...

    1 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    Amazing Facts About Human Hair

    Hey guys, In my previous entry I just wrote about some fascinating facts about the human brain. Today I just wanted to continue with the same topic with a small difference. In this entry I want to share with you all some fascinating stuffs about the rest of the human...

    1 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    Long way to Warsaw and I mean long...

    So, every journey has to start somewhere. Then, I think I should start with the ending, because the ending was happy and lets be honest, who does not like a happy final to o story? Me, I am a sucker for the “dreamy and rare endings”. The result of my story is that I...

    0 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    The 5th day: Any Given Sunday...

    Another day the sun wakes me up, and this is the fifth consecutive day carrying out the Sun in Turku, Finland. Although it is August and we are o summer It's a record that we were having such good weather. Although this time, the awakening was not as peaceful as the...

    1 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    The 3º day: Let's go to IKEA to buy Staff

    It Dawns another sunny day in Turku, Finland. Although last night I got home around  at five or six o'clock, I jumped up as soon as the alarm started to sound, and there were activities that we had to do. At 11:00 in the morning we met with Niko in Kauppatori again,...

    1 , 12 years ago
  • N/A

    laoLao... Whiskey of a darker kind

    laoLao (yes the first L is lowercase and the second upper) is a Laotian alcohol, usually made from fermented rice. The alcohol concentrations usually differ hugely within the ‘high’ range. It has a sweet taste, perhaps with a hint of yeast and is often drunk neat....

    0 , 5 years ago
  • N/A

    Students dormitory SASUMA - an amazing canteen; laundry

    Residencia Universitaria – SASUMA and its service I wrote an article about SASUMA – the student dormitory some weeks ago. This dormitory accepts students who study at Universidade da Madeira, so if you are a regular student or an Erasmus student, there is a chance...

    0 , 5 years ago
  • N/A

    A Southeast Asian journey while uni is out. Part Seven D: A Village Evening

    The surrounding rural hills and valleys of Luang Namtha had always attracted the intrepid jungle bashing traveler type and it was in the early 90s that the area came to be known more. In the late 90s early 2000s the government realised there was revenue to be earned...

    0 , 5 years ago
  • N/A

    A Southeast Asian journey while uni is out. Part Seven C: Another Trek

    Our trek began with a steep climb through a rubber tree plantation where ceramic bowls filled with a glutinous white sap had begun to smell after three days in rain water. As we left this behind us, the forest closed in properly and we felt as though in a leafy...

    0 , 5 years ago
← Previous Next →

Don’t have an account? Sign up.

Wait a moment, please

Run hamsters! Run!