Experiences by Ross
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7 / 10 pointsExperience in Asunción - Paty's Paraguay
What's it like to live in Asunción? Would you recommend it? How is it? Asunción is a small but very beautiful city; it has areas which are really picturesque and colonial and areas which are fairly urbanised and modern. Everything is pretty close in regards to...
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7 / 10 pointsExperience in Montevideo, Gastón's Uruguay
What's it like to live in Montevideo? Would you recommend it? How is it? It's a beautiful city. I recommend living there but I also think that there are better places (I have to be honest). There is a gorgeous boulevard (Rambla) which is ideal for a jog or walking or to...
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7 / 10 pointsExperience in Quito, Pablo's Ecuador
What's it like living in Quito? Would you recommend it? How is it? Well, Quito is a beautiful city, its climate varies so you can have really sunny days and a little while later, there could be heavy rain. It has a large amount of colonial architecture and tourist...
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6 / 10 pointsExperience in Caracas - José's Venezuela
What is Caracas like for you? Do you recommend it? How is it? Caracas is an excellent and beautiful city. It has a mountain in the northern part which has the name "Cerro El Avila" (Avila mountain)- it's impressive because it can be seen from anywhere from the east to...
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9 / 10 pointsExperience in La Paz - Mariel's Bolivia
How was it living in La Paz? Would you recommend it? It's a beautiful place, small and fairly quiet. The climate varies and the altitude of the city usually affects people if it's their first time in the city, but everything else makes up for it, since you can find...
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7 / 10 pointsOrange orange
The following post is about Amsterdam where I was during May, I had already been there some years ago during a trip to Belgium so we took advantage and went to Amsterdam since the train journey from Brussels in short, but I hardly saw anything, so I wanted to go...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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6 / 10 pointsCultural differences between Spain and Finland
Recycling will earn you money By recycling plastic bottles and cans you will receive a ticket for the recycling machine with the value of all your bottles (15-20 cents per bottle). Suggestion: put them in slowly, if you do it in a rush, the scanner or reader might not...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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8 / 10 pointsExperience in Cairo, Mohamed's Egypt
What is Cairo like for you? Do you recommend it? How is it? Greater Cairo is a gigantic metropolitan city which is made up of 5 smaller cities: Cairo, Giza, New Cairo, Helwan and 6th October) which home many different cultures at the same time. From the ancient...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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9 / 10 pointsErasmus experience in Kyoto, Alejandro's Japan
Why did you choose to go to Kyoto, Japan? Because I'm interested in the region of Kansai and its close proximity to Osaka. How long does your placement last? How much financial aid do you receive? 12 months. Financial aid is reduced for the costs of the...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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9 / 10 pointsErasmus experience in Zagreb
Why did you choose to go to Zagreb, Croatia? In reality, I've never really had a clear motive for wanting to go to Zagreb. I simply saw myself in different Erasmus destinations which were offered by my faculty and Croatia was the one that caught my attention the...
1 0 , 7 years ago -
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7 / 10 pointsEverything has its charm and nothing is paradise.
On the 13th February of this year, I still didn't know what was going to happen and that after those marvellous months, I was going to return home and everything would be the same, everything except for me. It was in the airport in Barajas where I met Andrea, a girl...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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10 / 10 pointsCarnival in Maastricht
Hi again! More things about carnival! If you are one of the people who have read my posts about Leuven or Antwerp, I think that this will interest you, so I encourage you to continue reading. The start of the semester, the beginning of Erasmus. A very good opportunity...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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9 / 10 pointsAn unforgettable experience in beautiful Sicily
Why did you choose to go to Catania, Italy? I didn't know much about the city of Catania, but I thought it would be interesting to spend a year in the south of Italy, although I was primarily interested in learning English. How long was the scholarship? How much money...
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10 / 10 pointsErasmus experience in Athens, Alejandro's Greece
Why did you choose to go to Athens, Greece? I wanted to go to a country that was relatively similar to Spain. I had been to Athens before to visit a friend who was doing his Erasmus placement in Athens and I liked the city a lot. Furthermore, I wanted to go to a country...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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8 / 10 pointsFirst few days: wandering around the city
After having adapted and after the first few days, I was already feeling settled. I already knew the University, my classmates and other Erasmus students, with whom, I'm living with all year. To start, Clermont-Ferrand is not really a touristy city, but the Gothic...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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8 / 10 pointsErasmus experience in Bucharest, Isabel's Romania
Why did you choose to go to Bucharest, Romania? I chose Bucharest because it was somewhere that had always attracted my attention. I have Romanian friends in Spain and I really wanted to know what their country of origin was like. I had it stuck in my head that it was...
1 0 , 7 years ago -
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9 / 10 pointsAn unbeatable year
Why did you choose to go to Vienna, Austria? Although my first idea was to go to Bergen in Norway, the subjects that they offered in the university could not be authorised by my course in Spain. I had gone to Vienna for a few days the summer before and I loved it, so I...
0 0 , 7 years ago -
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7 / 10 pointsErasmus experience in Bratislava, Blanch's Slovakia
Why did you choose Bratislava? So I could get to know the rest of Europe for a cheap price, since Bratislava has good connections to the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Hungary... How long does the scholarship last? How much money did you receive as...
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7 / 10 pointsCopenhagen... For free?
I have always been very fond of travelling, and thanks to that, I learnt how to find the cheapest methods of travelling as far as possible for the most amount of time possible. There are so many methods to find low cost flights, buses, trains and hotels, for example, by...
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9 / 10 pointsErasmus experience in Marseille, Cristina's France
Why did you choose to go to Marseille, France? I wanted to go to France because I had decided that I was a bit fed up with English, and when I was 15 I had said that in order to learn French I would go to France for a year, so that's what happened. And why Marseille?...
0 0 , 7 years ago
