Category: Erasmus

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Crazily enough, I’ve now lived in Madrid for 3 months, and it’s time for a trip home for the Christmas holidays! After a nice flight chatting to a fellow Brit I met on the

Last weekend saw myself and a motley collection of friends descend on the French city of Lyon- the origin of Cinema, the world’s silk capital and heart of the French Revolution. At least, that’s what the guidebooks say. (Prepare yourself

Yesterday marked the three month anniversary of my arrival in France which got me thinking about the pros and cons of living in the “CROUS” here. In some ways, it’s incredibly similar to University halls at home, but in others,

For some reason, French universities have half-term holidays, much like schools in the UK. This is definitely not something to complain about, except that it’s probably why lectures here started all the way back in early September and why we

Last weekend, ESN Besançon, who are the Erasmus Society for us international students, very kindly organised a trip to Geneva and Annecy, in Switzerland and France respectively. We were originally told to meet at 6.45am, but that swiftly became 7