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...
Apr 23, 2018 | Europe, Expats - stories from out there, Madrid, Spain
Adriana is 23 years old and has been studying in Madrid for 10 months. She didn’t go to Madrid to study because she had a special appeal to the city, since she didn’t even know it well, but because she found a master’s program that she found...
Oct 31, 2017 | Europe, Lisbon, Portugal, Travel Itineraries
I have a tendency here in the blog, to speak mostly of my trips abroad, when Lisbon is the city I know best, not only because whenever I have foreign friends visiting I take them for a walk, just as I have gone for a walk countless times to find the most interesting...
Sep 26, 2017 | Europe, Iceland
I was on the bus between Keflavik airport and the school where we were staying for the next four days, near Thorlakshofn, and I took the opportunity to inquire Úlfur, icelandic, sitting next to me, how the aurora borealis begin, something all Portuguese on the trip...
Sep 7, 2017 | Belgium, Europe, Expats - stories from out there
Catarina is an architect, and we were classmates for only two years out of the five our course has. This is because I went to Italy in our third year and she went to Ghent, Belgium in the 4th, where she then decided to end the course, living there, therefore, during 2...
Aug 31, 2017 | Denmark, Europe, Expats - stories from out there
Mafalda is 23 years old and loves our country more than anything. But she soon realized that the world and the life she wanted included much more than what she had in Lisbon. She always had a dream to travel, to learn different things and, especially, to live abroad...
Aug 24, 2017 | Europe, Expats - stories from out there, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Isadora is 24 years old and finished this year a master’s degree in Interior Architecture at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, Netherlands. She has been living in the Netherlands for almost 3 years, and the reason she decided to go abroad was because she...
Jul 20, 2017 | Cambridge, Europe, Expats - stories from out there, United Kingdom
Inês is 24 years old and was in Cambridge a little over a year, between 2015 and 2016, to continue her studies in the field of Arts and to develop her artistic practice in a different, challenging and valuing environment. Meanwhile, she returned to Portugal where, in...
Jun 22, 2017 | Europe, Expats - stories from out there, Iceland
Cátia is 26 years old and has lived in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, for six months. She went to this country as a volunteer in the EVS program (European Voluntary Service within the ERASMUS+ Program) as an assistant in the area of volunteering development for...
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...
Apr 29, 2017 | Europe, Portugal
Last weekend I went with some friends to Arouca to spend the weekend. A friend of my mother has a house there and from there we could drive to Passadiços do Paiva, the World Travel Award winner of 2016 of Best Touristic Development Project. Unfortunately dued to the...
Mar 28, 2017 | Andalucia, Europe, Spain
Last summer I went on a one-month trip with Mexican, French and German friends through Spain, Portugal and France. Jorge and I arrived in Cordoba the day before the others, since we wanted to see the city with time. We drove from Lisbon, with a brief stop in Mérida to...
