Two weekends ago came the most anticipated event in the Lyonnais calendar – the Fête des Lumières. Back in 1643, […]
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Nativities and la Croix Rouge
It’s Christmas time at Grenoble. Standing behind a manger, I press my hands together serenely next to two other angels […]
Chainsaws, Artist Collectives and Cheddar Cheese
Somehow a month and a half has passed since I last blogged, and I’m well aware this is due a […]
Early-Morning French
It happened. I should have been better prepared, I know; I should have spent a full week stressing over obstruants […]
A Stint in Geneva
It’s 5am in the morning and I am trudging through a snow blizzard on my way home to the UK. […]
Mal du Pays
It’s a weird time of year to be out of the UK. I never thought the drizzly end of October […]
Life at the Sorbonne Nouvelle
I’m on my fourth week in Paris and life still hasn’t settled down. There are no half measures on your […]
Mont Ste Victoire
There are probably really obvious things in Edinburgh you haven’t yet done. I know I’ve never been inside the castle, […]
Ice
Today it became winter. Summer here comes away like a slice; one minute I was wearing t-shirts and getting sunburnt, […]
“Oppa Erasmus Style”
It’s starting to feel more autumnal here – on clear days the sky is that crisp, bright, white-blue that reminds […]
University of Edinburgh Go Abroad 