Since my last post, quite a bit has happened and things are looking up!
My sister had arrived and we had a great time here. I really felt like I was at home and she was a guest in my city. It was a nice feeling. I showed her many attractions and told her the little [...]
At this point in the trip, school has begun and I am organising my schedule. I have done little exploring of Manchester, but what I have seen is that they love their alcohol and they LOVE football.
Here we are at a Manchester City match:
The atmosphere was amazing, especially when they scored the winning [...]
Not a long entry this time, just a couple of snapshots of the incredible history that awaits you in Lyon! The entire city centre is a UNESCO World Heritage listed site as it contains Roman relics, Mediaeval and Renaissance buildings, and of couse the rest of the city contains 19th, 20th and 21st century buildings [...]
Well it has been just over three weeks now and I feel settled in. Of course there are still a thousand things I don’t know, and every day I have hits and misses with communication and understanding what I am meant to do. At least now I don’t feel so bad when I get something [...]
I finally arrived in Manchester a few days ago and have settled in. The place doesn’t feel totally foreign as it reminds me so much of Melbourne. The hard part is getting used to the accent. It’s very thick here. I like it!
To set the context, I am an undergraduate studying Arts at Melbourne, majoring [...]
Stockholm is growing on me. I have been here for just over a month and this is my first blog. The weather has been sunny, but due to my neglect and the lack of watering, my rosemary plant is now barely alive by my window sill. It now sheds brown leaves against my window, which captures [...]
After reading some of the horrors already endured by my contemporaries in France, my first week seems fairly tame. This does not, however, mean that it has been without its challenges and as I blog over the next six months I hope to share both the ups and the downs with you, readers, to inform [...]
The chase began in late May, in my very own room at Queen’s College. Scanning the announcements on the Lyon 2 University website seemed like the perfect procrastination method from studying for exams. I sent many a hopeful email, and didn’t receive many in return. Those that I did were generally of the ‘sorry, but…’ [...]
This story is from about a month ago, but is about my travels around the South of France
Since I last wrote I have been quite the busy traveller. I started by staying with Fanny’s family (a French exchange student friend) at the home in Roquefort les Pins, about half an hour from Nice [...]
Austrian hostels do not have 24hour check-in service, and no flights are arriving at the right time, so I decided to spend the night at Vienna International Airport, then head to my hostel when it opens in the next morning.
research:
I googled some facts and stories of people laying over at Vienna airport, they mentioned the [...]