Guest Post: My Experience of Teaching Abroad in Rome as a British Council Comenius Assistant
Settit Beyene has just spent a year living and working in Rome as part of the British Council’s Comenius Assistantship programme. It bears similarities to the better-known Language Assistant […]
Postcard of the Week: The Spanish Steps, Rome
Rome. It was the city of Rome that I visited aged 14 on my first ever trip to Italy, a country I’d later move to on three separate occasions […]
Night Trains: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
You don’t come across too many night trains any more – they’re all going bust due to budget airlines and everyone’s desperation to get to their destination as fast […]
Jobs Abroad: The Glamorous Life of an Au Pair
In the summer holidays after my first year at university, I had the sheer luck of becoming an au pair for an Italian family, but it wasn’t just any […]
Postcard of the Week: L’Amour et Psyché, enfants
This painting, L’Amour et Psyché, enfants, was created in 1890 by William-Adolphe Bougeureau and the subject of the painting stems from the story of Cupid and Psyche told by […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 