May 15, 2020 | Europe, Italy, Sicily, Travel Itineraries
When I was in Florence in Erasmus most of my friends were actually from Sicily. So Maria, my flatmate, and I, decided we should fly there during our Easter Holidays and visit the island. We stayed two days in Palermo, took a bus to Taormina where we stayed one and a...
Mar 13, 2020 | Europe, Florence, Italy, Travel Itineraries
As you may know, I did Erasmus in Florence, having spent ten months between 2013 and 2014 in the Tuscan capital. At the time, the blog was another, where I documented my day to day, my visits today to this Palazzo, tomorrow to another. Today I decided to compile here...
Nov 4, 2019 | Europe, Italy, Milan
After six years I returned to the city of Milan. I would rather have visited the lakes of Lombardia but the logistics of transportation were almost impossible so I returned to the city with a colleague who had never visited Italy. One of the things I wanted to do...
May 15, 2018 | Europe, Italy, Milan
It all started with a spontaneous e-mail with my resume to TAP Air Portugal in November 2016 and a year and a half later here I am, on my first layover with the company. After going to Geneva and returning to Lisbon, we landed at Milan Malpensa airport, the first time...
May 29, 2017 | Europe, Florence, Italy, Travel Tips
I lived in Florence for 10 months in Erasmus. The scholarships that EU gives do help, but usually they aren’t even enough to pay the rent so unfortunately to go in Erasmus isn’t still reachable for everyone. I was getting 306€ per month. The scholarship...
Sep 15, 2014 | Europe, Florence, Italy, Travel Tips
I studied architecture in ISCTE-IUL. ISCTE is known as a business and management university and a lot of people are still surprise to find out that you can study architecture in there. You have some advantages, as to work with people from very different fields, but...
Feb 27, 2014 | Europe, Italy, Rome
I have a love hate relationship with the city of Rome! If on one hand is “the city of Rome”, with all its history, the Tiber river (Tevere in Italian) and its opposite bank, Trastevere – my favorite part of the city -, all the churches, that surprise even the most...
Feb 25, 2014 | Europe, Italy, Rome, Travel Itineraries, Vatican City
Directly after my week in Paris I flew to Rome for almost a week of <<between semesters’>> holidays before returning to classes in Florence. I also had some Erasmus friends here, with whom I stayed. Actually this script has only five days because I...
Sep 15, 2013 | Europe, Italy, Milan, Travel Itineraries
Our Erasmus adventure started! Maria and I arrived to Milan, where we are spending two days before going to Florence. Milano is beautiful, but not amazing, you have to know Italians to show you the beautiful places, hidden from the tourists. On our first day we...
