• Midsummer among clouds in Norway

    Here comes the summer (All photos are my own) Midsummer morning and I found myself quietly alone, high up on the bank of a river on the porch of a Scandi cabin with a steaming mug of tea and a view of unmelted snow. The journey had been really too long but I had met...

    1 , 6 years ago
  • look back in time..

    My dearly beloved companions today I will take you with me and give you a glimpse of an insightful museum in the city of Gdansk: museum of the Second World War. There might be a million ways to spend an afternoon in such a beautiful city and I chose to stay in my room...

    0 , 7 years ago
  • My grandmother's kitchen

    Although this blog is supposed to be dedicated to sharing recipes, I need to post something about the source of my passion for learning to cook and the reason for my well-rounded cultural and linguistic upbringing: my grandmother's unforgettable home, kitchen and...

    0 , 7 years ago
  • All green

        Giardino Scotto For me is a place for relaxation, walking and taking pictures... if you're more creative, you can try something else, but it is too green to do many activities.  I found this place in March, (that's why these are not so "summer photos" of it)...

    0 , 8 years ago
  • Why Pisa?

    No, first… why Erasmus? – Well because it was a challenge for me during my first year at the University and I couldn’t imagine myself traveling for one major purpose of studying abroad. I must admit that I need one year to get used to the idea of doing something...

    0 , 8 years ago
  • Why I decided to move to Madrid.

    Warning: if you do an Erasmus, you might fall in love or even find your soulmate. Gross right? That was my first reaction three years ago when I moved to Amiens (France) to study for four months, and people were telling me that the Erasmus experience changes your life...

    0 , 8 years ago
  • Getting there

    So my family and I decided to do something different for this winter break. Something different than the usual excessive eating and drinking in Sardinia, our Italian homeland. We decide to excessively eat and drink under the sun: in Zanzibar. Another beautiful island,...

    2 , 8 years ago
  • What I learned about the Portuguese people

    Portuguese people's characteristics from my point of view Very polite. The expression ‘com licença’ is used in almost every situation. It means ‘excuse me’, and they really use it a lot in Portugal: when you enter a house, when you want to go somewhere but...

    6 , 9 years ago
  • Praxe - A Portuguese academic tradition

    Praxe It’s likely that you noticed students strolling around the roads of Porto wearing dark clothes. It's called Praxe and it actually started in Coimbra. Praxe is the baptism of students in universities in Portugal, and was created to make a start for the freshmen...

    1 , 9 years ago
  • Where to study Spanish?

    For most of us there are two conditions that have to be met when deciding about which language academy to enroll in: the quality or level of the education and the affordability. Well, I have to admit that in my case finding the perfect school wasn’t an easy process....

    1 , 9 years ago
  • First evening in Budapest

    I've never been to Budapest and Hungary before (although they are our neighbours) and I was planning to visit it now during my Erasmus semester in Vienna since everything is very close and especially affordable for the students. Now I had more reasons than ever to go...

    0 , 9 years ago
  • My 5 favourite Spanish words

    Despite my most recent article painting me as some Netflix-addicted hermit, I do in fact speak Spanish, improving it and learning new words every day. In this little article I’ll be introducing you to some of my favourite words I’ve picked up. Through translating or...

    2 , 10 years ago
  • Handball championship and other girly stuff

    I feel like I should say something about this European handball championship that ended a couple of days ago. I always feel like I should say something. About whatever. I have this need to comment. A real and sometimes problematic need. So this handball championship....

    2 , 11 years ago
  • Happy birthday, Bojane

    My dear Bojan, I know you won't be reading this tonight and probably not tomorrow, maybe not even the day after that, because knowing this is a big event and it requires a big party and a lot of alcohol, you'll get sober enough to read only in a couple of days. If it...

    4 , 11 years ago
  • Valentine's Day

    It was 14th of February when I left Warsaw from the airport and went - first to Lisbon, and then, after 2 hours in there - to Seville. I was so scared and excited at the same time. It was my first travel by a plane ANYWHERE, and I was completely alone with 40 kg of...

    0 , 11 years ago
  • Live your myth in Finland!

    The time is 22:00. The sun has not set yet. Where am I? I’m in Finland, the land of the “extremes” . The land of the extreme low winter temperatures where in the winter you get plenty of darkness and in the summer you get plenty of sun. The land of the educated...

    0 , 12 years ago
  • And the 4th day arrives: this time more party, but good party.

    Another sunny day in Turku and around eleven in the morning, I woke up. And Iwas Saturday already!! It was a cassuality but Till and me woke up at the same time. We were watching freaky staff at the computer, but before we were having breakfast and we were...

    2 , 12 years ago
  • Time Flies

    It has been over a month since I updated this sight. I am sorry. Life and love have gotten in the way. (It is amazing how mych a boyfriend can suck up your time) I am writing to let you all know IT IS OFFICIAL I AM GOING TO PALMA!!! Just 48 hours after my application...

    0 , 13 years ago
  • Hola!

    ¡Hola y Bienvenidos! Hello and welcome! My name is Hannah and I am a Second Year at The University of Iowa, in Iowa City, IA. I am majoring in Spanish and Economics and am here to share with  you my journey to Palma. People start blogs for 1000′s o reasons, but...

    1 , 13 years ago
  • Erasmus+ Youth Exchange in Spain

    I recently had the incredible opportunity to take part in an Erasmus+ youth exchange from January 11th to 18th, 2025, in Collado Mediano, Spain. The project, Hearing, Feeling, Acting: In Search of Neurodevelopmental Change in Youth, was a deep dive into sensory...

    0 , 6 months ago

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