The beautiful city of A Coruña, Spain
Blog posts
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The Swedish punctuality, tick, tack, tick, tack!
A word that was unknown to me until I lived in Sweden, punctuality. Every day I must run to get the bus, the train or the tram. It always happens me the same, since here they always run on time, exactly on the minute. What I have never seen before is that the urban...
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The Swedish architecture
This topic is one of the most fascinating to me, the architecture. And in Sweden have lived thousands of different tribes and cultures. One example of this is Stockholm, it is fascinating to see how the architecture, the buildings and the streets change from one area of...
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Poverty in Sweden
Interestingly, this is a question that my visitors always ask me... Is there much poverty in Sweden? Actually, there is not much poverty, and if there is some, it is much less than in other places. Sweden is a welfare country and that means that they care more for...
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Talking about stereotypes: the Swedish
If you think for 15 seconds about the word Sweden, what does it come into your mind? Surely, the most common and well - known stereotypes will struck into your mind. The Spanish society started to stereotype this Nordic country at the end of the 60s and the 70s. Films...
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Sigtuna, the Viking town
If you want to enjoy a trip to a small Viking town, this is your place. Sigtuna is located only one hour from Stokholm and it is one of the oldest Viking places in all Sweden. In order to get there, you must take the Pendeltag, that is, the commuter train to the station...
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Swedish bank account
I have previously talked about the problems that Swedish currency, the Swedish kronas implies and also about the changing values that it has regarding the euro. Now, I am going to explain here how to open a Swedish bank account following the information that my...
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Guide to survive (financially) in Sweden: Searching for a Job
The truth is that, for any Erasmus student, money is one of the things that will worry you the most, as well as being a recurrent conversation topic. We are in crisis, we are students, and etc and etc. Although this is a problem that concerns to every Erasmus student,...
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Lugo and its Roman Wall
Lugo, the walled city Hello, how are you? I hope very well, today in this post I am going to talk about the city of Lugo and its Roman wall, which is the most important touristic attraction in the city. This city has some touristic charms, such as the Cathedral and the...