Belgrade already feels like home
November 5, 2013
Belgrade life, or Beogradski život, is certainly not as I expected. In all honesty, this may be because I’m not really sure what I had expected before arrival. I had been to Belgrade previously, and I had studied in Belgrade previously, however only for two weeks, and perhaps I had treated this more like a …
Making friends in Bordeaux
In just under week, I will have been in Bordeaux for two months. I have met a great deal of people, visited and been to a whole heap of places and had to tackle lots of problems on my own. Although some has been a challenge, I am actually looking back thinking where has the …
Wandering donkeys and goats..sums up life in Corsica
Post by Josephine Adams Since my arrival, I have regularly heard Corsica described as a place that the French consider to be more like Italy than France, and which the Italians consider to be culturally French. Politically a part of mainland France, but situated closer to Italy, this Mediterranean island, with its turbulent history of …
It was only when I arrived in northern Brittany that I realised how unprepared I really was
November 4, 2013
The past few weeks have undoubtedly been an enormous learning experience for me. After choosing to undertake a British Council Assistantship in Brittany, I spent the weeks before my arrival in France excited to be teaching English as a foreign language, especially as I hope to become a teacher in the future. On the ferry …
So far, so good
I think that when you ask people what do they think about travelling- most of them will say they love it. But when you travel and visit a country for a couple of hours, days, even a week, it is way different to when you live in that country for couple of months. Well, I …
Seville – everywhere you look there is something beautiful
When Karl Pilkington travels to India during ‘An Idiot Abroad’ he complains of neck ache because he is constantly turning around to look at all the different things going on around him. After the first couple of days in Seville I could definitely see where he was coming from. Everywhere you look there is something …
Adapting nicely to the French ways in Paris
Post written by Charlie Page My year abroad didn’t exactly get off to the best off starts when I arrived at the place where I would be living until April a month ahead of when my host family thought I should arrive! Safe to say that they were not best impressed with me being unable …
No need for butterflies in Niort, France
Post written by Rosemary Ash So here I am, over a month in to my experience as an English Language Teaching Assistant in the town of Niort in France. And I’ve got to say, it’s been great. After a long ferry crossing and couple of days meander down the French autoroute, the time finally came …
Getting to know Hamburg: The City of Lakes and Lights
November 3, 2013
Post written by Charlotte Bernard I first came to Hamburg in the north of Germany for a day-trip in December three years ago, and the impression which stayed with me was one of the twinkling fairy-lights in the dark afternoon, the warm mugs of Glühwein, and the childish giddiness which the most wonderful time of the …
Dr Who and Sheldon speak French – who knew?
It was strange when I first moved in to my studio in Paris, with me knowing that it would be far removed from everything that I had thus far experienced at Nottingham. The scariest thing of all was that I knew I would not only have to live independently, but do so in a different …
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