The Munich Oktoberfest – a must see or a tourist trap?
The Oktoberfest is the biggest ‘Volksfest’ in the world, but has it gotten too big? Our author, who is originally from Munich, weighs in on the question of what Oktoberfest is all about, and if it really is the best way to experience Bavarian culture.
Has Couchsurfing become a bohemian Tinder?
Locals offering free housing and good company in a beautiful location? Sounds like a backpacker’s dream! Is it still so, though?
Venetian summer nights: Festa del Redentore
Iris takes us to her beloved Venice and offers us an insight into one of the most famous feasts of the city. Enjoy a virtual tour through the gondoliers, boats and cracking fireworks!
Suspended between Ireland’s legendary past and Star Wars future
Skellig Michael, Ireland. Not many people know the history of this island, where legend seems to impose itself and to overcome present reality. Skellig Michael is the largest of the two Skellig Islands, located 17 kilometers from the Kerry coastline. A place where the ocean fully manifests its fearsome power, which makes the two islands almost inaccessible for the rest of the world.
Quiz: How to swear and insult in Europe
What is the first thing you teach your new foreign friend in your native language? More often than not, it is a bad word, am I right? Most Erasmus students come back home experts in multilingual swearing, and if you haven’t heard these expressions before, here is your chance to catch up!
Barcelona’s bubble
Spain welcomes one of the greatest numbers of Erasmus students in Europe and Barcelona is without doubt one of their favourite destinations. You can feel the cosmopolitan atmosphere in the streets: it’s more common to hear English in the centre than Spanish or Catalan. But, nowadays, this surge in popularity is coming face to face with a reality that many have been talking about for a while: the current housing bubble in the cost of rent.
Life at the epicentre of the Middle East conflict
For fifty years, Palestine has been under Israeli occupation. One of the areas which has seen the most conflict between Israeli settlers and Palestinians is considered to be Hebron in the West Bank. So what is everyday life like with the occupation and the settlement policy?
Battling the Post-Erasmus Blues: Culture Shock, again?
Culture Shock. It is a term we have all heard a hundred times before and it is something that every university will mention in pre-departure meetings. As Erasmus students, we all associate these two words with the beginning of our time abroad. But what do they actually mean? And is it possible to get “culture shocked” twice?
Battling the Post-Erasmus Blues: Hello my name is…
While it may not be a recognised medical condition, that glum feeling you get when you return to your home university is definitely normal, and something that every Ex-Erasmus student experiences. Right? In our new series, you can follow our author’s way back into ‘normal-life’ after an eventful year abroad.
Searching for the next destination
“It all started when I took a trip to see some relatives in Germany and then went to Bulgaria to see some friends. Since then the ‘instinct’ of the traveler awoke inside me. I usually choose places with cheap flights and go. Just like that. I arrive, find a hostel nearby, choose a room and then discover the place.”
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