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Wine and dine in the ever-so-fine city of Bergamo
After reading (the English translation of) Alessandro Manzoni’s "I promessi sposi" (“The Betrothed”), I decided that the basis of my choice of destination for my study abroad semester would absolutely be a book. The time when this well-known novel was set was a...
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Visit these 10 free museums in Lima the first Sunday of each month
For a while now, in Peru and Lima, there are free museums being managed, thanks the museums that find themselves in charge of the state at a national level, so that the first Sundays of each month, the Peruvian visitor can have free entry to the museums. It has the...
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Paris: a whole city to discover
Paris In the following article I would like to talk about the city where I've been living for about six years. Thanks to my mother's willpower and courage, today I have the opportunity to live in the city of my dreams. This is the city where everyone dreams of visiting...
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A walk to Saint Nectaire
Saint Nectaire During my Erasmus in Clermont Ferrand I made an effort to visit some neighbouring countries. In this article I want to talk of my visit to the small and quiet village of Saint Nectaire. This village is located on the Sancy ranges or the Dore mountains,...
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If you're a smoker...
If you’re a smoker you’ll be wondering how much cigarettes cost in Portugal, or if you can smoke in the bars, or also more simply where to buy cigarettes! In this post I’ll attempt to provide answers for these simple questions, because some things weren’t even...
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The University and city of Exeter
The University and city of Exeter The student centre of Devon, home to a stunning cathedral, the County Council, and a university where everyone is supposedly either from Surrey, has had private school education or was rejected from Oxbridge (only 2 out of 3 apply to...
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Where to live in Athens: The crusade of the five neighbourhoods (3)
Now we have arrived at the last of the neighbourhoods that I've personally gotten to know, despite leaving many out due to lack of experience (Glyfada, Faliro y Pireos on the coast; Patissia, Nea Smirni, Xalandri further inland... they all have pros and cons. ) To know...
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Where to live in Athens: The crusade of the five neighbourhoods (2)
Hi everyone! Continuing on from the previous entry about the different neighbourhoods of the city where you can live, the next two arrive. I've described Kallithea and Victoria in this post, which are relatively close to the centre. I still have to mention, if I didn't...
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Where to live in Athens: The crusade of the five neighbourhoods (1)
It's July, and with the arrival of the first days of unbearable heat, the moment has also arrived of my fifth and last move. Well, this is for the readers, who have yet to find their little corner or who really want to make a home when they go abroad. I was one of those...
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Everyday Tourism in Athens
I can't believe that it took me a month after arriving until I dedicated myself to seeing the tourist sites and places of the city. Later I discovered that I wasn't the only one waiting for someone to keep me company and to do the whole tour. Athens, as you know, is a...
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Unwritten Rules of Athens
Although I agree that, when it comes to rules, the Greek capital is quite relaxed, and that it's easy to dodge a bullet if needs be, you should still know which are the details regarding the "do's and don'ts" so you don't embarrass yourself in this foreign culture. I...
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The beaches of Athens
Precisely yesterday I decided to take another walk through the beaches of the city, and it reminded me of how far I was from home. Athens has a whole boardwalk on the coast, starting from the Peiraias harbour to the beginning of Glyfada, a very nice neighbourhood sat in...
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Day 6 and 7: Granada
The meeting place with the guy who was taking us to the next and last destination was the bus terminal in Cádiz. We were travelling with a nice guy who was more or less the same age as us and got to the meeting point about 20 minutes late. He said he spent the weekend...
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Day 5: Cádiz
We took a train to Cádiz, then from there a taxi to get directly to the centre, where we'd booked our Airbnb. The city itself extends over a kind of island, connected to the mainland by some roads. I suddenly realised that at night, Cádiz had something that made it...
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Day 3 and 4: Seville
We arrived in Seville and it was now 9pm on Tuesday evening (day 2). The hotel was definitely better than the one we stayed in the previous night, if anything, a little far from the centre. After checking in and washing up it was almost 10pm, so we postponed all tours...
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Day 1 and 2: CĂłrdoba
It was mid-February 2016 and my Erasmus in Madrid was almost over. I'd just finished with my exams and I spent two good weeks simply doing nothing, given that I'd paid rent for my room for up til the 1st of March. I knew that in the last few days my friend from Italy...
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Zaragoza, my city
What's it like living in Zaragoza? Do you recommend it? How is it? I've lived there my whole life. I live in Actur and I'm lucky because I can walk almost everywhere. Zaragoza is quite big but if you're lucky and you have a well-situated accomodation, you'll be close to...
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Bilbao, a historic city
We decided to make the most of our last day in Bilbao. Our bus would leave around 7pm and we had to collect everything from the hostel. We wanted to visit as much as possible during the morning. We focused in particular on seeing the Old Town that was very connected to...
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Bilbao, sport buildings
The third day we spent in Bilbao, we woke up a bit later because we'd gone out the night before. That was mainly spent visiting sports buildings. I'm not very interested in sports, I'm more of the couch potato type, but I have to confess that the dimensions of the...
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Bilbao, magical places
The second day that we were in Bilbao, we discovered fantastic things that we never expected to find. Thanks to one of the teachers who was from there, and knew the city, we visited some places that a normal tourist wouldn't have known. Our hostel was next to the Azkuna...
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Bilbao, first impressions
Hi everyone! I'm going to tell you about one of the last trips I've done in Spain with university. Last year we went to visit the city of Bilbao. I had only been there once before, when I was younger, so I didn't remember anything about it at the time. Arrival and...
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Lavender Fields in Brihuega
Last summer I had the opportunity to attend the Lavender Festival in Guadalajara. My family and I spent some time in the city because we have relatives there. This festival takes place in a small village called Brihuega, celebrating the beginning of the harvest. As in,...
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Madrid in the Summer
In July last Summer I visited my family who live in Madrid. I spent a few days there so we took advantage of the time to visit some of the things that the city offers, museums, parks... everything you could see during the hot days of the Madrid Summer. I had already...
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Barcelona
Happy Saturday evening everyone! In this fifth and final post of this blog dedicated to Spain, I want to tell you about the experience I had on my trip to Barcelona, a city I had the pleasure of visiting twice, during a cruise of West Mediterranean sea: the first time...
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Ibiza
Happy Saturday afternoon everyone! In this third post of this blog, I want to tell you about the experience I had on my trip to Ibiza, a city I had the fortune and pleasure of visiting only once, exactly on Wednesday 9th August 2017, thanks to a cruise of the Western...
