September Studies and Sightseeing

I am now two months into my time studying here in Adelaide, Australia. I have just started my mid-semester break and will be flying to Melbourne tomorrow to do some exploring and sight-seeing. I hope to do the Great Ocean

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Life in Adelaide, Australia: August Update

This time a year ago, I could never have imagined that I would be where I am now – here in Australia, studying at the University of Adelaide. It’s been exactly six weeks since I left the UK, and so

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University in Madrid: politics, relaxed exams and a lack of lined paper

My year abroad has come to an end! A lot has happened in the last few months, but, seeing as I spent the year as a student, I thought I’d focus this post on the differences between my home university

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The end is near

I am feeling rather nostalgic already with only two weeks left here in Sydney! I may have only been here five months but the friends, the experiences and the fantastic university will stay with me forever. I don’t think anyone

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Seventh, Eighth and Ninth Month in Adelaide

As always, since my last blog I’ve been very busy. My latest trip was to the Northern Territory for a week. With the same group I went to Tasmania with, including Soton’s very own Pete Rhodes, we hired a massive 6

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Two months in the work begins!

Well, I have been here two months and it seems my time has been filled with essay after essay and book after book (I’m actually writing this blog to delay starting my third essay of this week). The work load

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