If you were to ask my friends what my favorite song is, I'm confident that they could all answer without hesitation - Budapest by George Ezra. While I've been loving and listening to this song for years now (and I lost count of exactly how many times I listened to it on the plane ride over), I promise it was not the only reason I wanted to go to Budapest. The city is full of unique architecture, an incredibly deep and captivating history, relaxing thermal spas, and some of the best lemonade I have had in my entire life. I am grateful to have been able to spend five full days in this city during a study tour with my psychology class. While we had numerous academic visits that you can read about here, we learned just as much exploring the city on our own. Here are my top ten tips for making the most of a trip to Budapest, even if you're not as obsessed with the song as I am...
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For DIS Students, the semester is broken up by three longer breaks -
Travel Break One and Two, which are each nine days long, and April break, which spans five days. While everybody gets one of the Travel breaks and April Break to devote to independent travel or exploring Copenhagen, the other Travel Break is spent travelling with their core course on what is called a study tour. My class' tour was this past week in Budapest, Hungary! In addition to learning that Budapest is home to the world's best lemonade (seriously, insanely delicious), we learned a lot about the history of the country and how it has impacted the current day political and economic state of the country, as well as its citizens' well-being. Each day was broken up into a morning activity, free time for lunch and exploration, an afternoon activity and class meal, and then the evening to ourselves. If you'd like to read about our activities with DIS, keep reading! If you'd like to hear about what we did in our free time, you can find that link at the bottom of this post. I promise I'm actually studying abroad...
I am well aware that my last four posts have been about all my marvelous misadventures around various European cities, and while it is endlessly entertaining for me to dream about excursions all around Europe, a good portion of my time here has been spent reading articles, writing papers, studying for quizzes, and complaining when my laptop battery dies and I am forced to return home from the cafe I was working in. I've gotten a few questions recently (yay!) about what my classes are like here at DIS, and I'm here now to share exactly what it's like trying to balance five classes and European exploration. The past two months have been an incredible adventure, full of meeting new people and exploring new places. For me, study abroad meant an opportunity to travel far outside the U.S. and far outside of my comfort zone - which meant to a brand new environment where I didn't know...well, anyone really. I've loved getting to know so many new people from all over the U.S. and Denmark, but with the semester halfway over (How?!), it's strange to think that I haven't gotten a chance to see some of my best friends in almost three months. I've been quite used to seeing on a daily basis for the last three years, and I've been missing them from across the Atlantic...but this weekend, that all changed as we were REUNITED in Dublin, Ireland! Although I was in the city for less than 48 hours, I've acquired a couple tips for finding your way around...here are the top ten.
The last stop on our grand tour was Barcelona, Spain.
My goals for this trip were to stop by the beach (done), take a photo with Gaudi's well known mosaic benches (done), and to make it to the Bunkers del Carmel to watch the sunset over the city (done). In addition to checking off my bucket list one item at a time, I managed to fill in the rest of the weekend with copious amounts of tapas, two new pairs of earrings, and quite a bit of climate-related confusion (I learned quite quickly that the locals are all still wearing marshmallow coats in 60 degree weather... oops). Keep reading for the top ten tips from our four days in Barcelona... |
Hi Everyone!I'm Lydia, a 21 year old college student studying abroad in Copenhagen, Denmark for the spring 2017 semester. I'm excited to spend the next few months adventuring around Europe, and it'll all be documented here! Feel free to look around. Archives
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