Continuing hobbies on year abroad

[Taken from my blog at madridmemories.wordpress.com] Rewind to the beginning of my second year, and I was running around SUSU (the Students’ Union at Southampton Uni) trying out lots of taster sessions, including a lot of martial arts (I had

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Home for Christmas

[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

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Back home for Christmas

After having spent twenty weeks away, studying three new subjects, visiting seven new countries and making great friends, I am now back in England and the first semester of my year abroad is over. I finished my exams on the

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Welcome to Mexico

****** Taken from my personal blog: http://paprikaandsombrero.wordpress.com/*****   Soooo time has come for me to finally start my Mexican blog after having spent a more than a week on Aztec land. I’ve had a very eventful week to say at

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Fiestas & Festivities – a Mexican Navidad

Somehow it’s been nearly a month since my last blog post and I’ve now completed over two months in Mexico City! I haven’t written partly because I’ve been busy working on my research project (I handed in the report on

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Lyon- riots, rides and ravioli

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

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