Third Year Abroad: Pros and Cons of Teaching English Abroad
Choosing how to spend your Year Abroad is not nearly as easy as it seems. Here I’m going to take a look at the pros and cons of teaching English […]
Postcard of the Week: Pesto Recipe
Pesto alla Genovese, a speciality of Liguria, is eaten on everything, from pizza to ciabatta to all varieties of pasta. Many tourists come to Italy with a food tour of […]
City View Travel Photography Competition
A browse on Twitter lead me to this travel photography competition run by Millennium & Copthorne Hotels. To enter I have to tweet the URL of a photo I […]
Postcard of the Week: Limoncello Recipe
Although this recipe purports to be for Limoncino, that is in fact just the Ligurian name for the better known Limoncello, an after-dinner lemon liqueur produced all over Italy, although […]
Jobs Abroad: a Guide to Working a Ski Season
I feel like working a ski season on your gap year should be an obligatory rite of passage for everyone. Especially for those who’ve never been up a mountain […]
Postcard of the Week: Exeter
I simply couldn’t leave out a postcard from Exeter, my home for three years during university. When looking into various universities during my A-Levels, I read a sentence about […]
Postcard of the Week: Azulejos
Azulejos are bluish tiles that are found all over Portugal, especially in Lisbon. In this colourful city it’s actually more unusual to find a wall without decorative tiles than with. […]
Postcard of the Week: Peñiscola
Peñiscola is a small town on Spain’s east coast, in the region of Valencia. Its population in winter is just 5,000 people, but swells to around 300,000 in the […]