Making the most out of your summer internship
Oh, summer time! The long-waited time of the year is here! Everyone is on holiday in Greece, watching the waves gently lapping along the seashore, whilst enjoying an iced coffee. The scene is almost as picturesque as the screensaver on the computer in my office, for that screensaver is the only view of sea waves […]
Travelling on a budget in the Netherlands
Travelling within the Netherlands is not really a student-friendly affair. Or better said, a not very non-Dutch-student-friendly affair, since Dutch students do get free travel around the country. The easiest and sometimes only way to get from one city to another is by train and this can truly become a problem when you […]
What I wish I’d known before my year abroad
Ah, June 2015. It was a very different time for me, and I was working many hours every week at my retail job trying to save up as much as I could before I jetted off for America. If you’ve been a long time reader of my blog, you will remember my posts before my […]
The Jet Lag Chronicles
It’s now been exactly a week since I landed back in England, and I still don’t feel able to do a retrospective post about my year abroad. It would be difficult to put down in words exactly what the people I met and the experiences I’ve had mean to me, and I hope that doesn’t […]
Surviving long distance
When I first decided that I was going to do a year abroad in my degree, I knew that it would involve being by myself. Like moving out to university for the first time, without the comfort blanket of being able to go home easily if things got bad. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t regret […]
Some Practical Tips for Moving to Germany
Guten Abend! Whilst there are a multitude of Berlin Adventures that I cannot wait to share with you all on this blog, I thought it would be best to start with sharing some of the practical aspects that have made this move to Germany possible, so that any aspiring Deutsche out there can know what […]
Living in Student Accommodation
So, you’ve got your results, got your place at the University of Leicester, and the day of the big move is looming. This time two years ago I was in your shoes, looking through the freshers’ Facebook page to find anyone doing my course, and anyone living in my building. Moving into student accommodation is […]
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