What first thoughts come to your mind when you think of Switzerland? Cheese, watches, banks, chocolate and crazy prizes for everything. Swiss people are also famous for their precision, perfectionism and punctuality. What else would you expect from people who produce watches? While planning to go to Switzerland many people choose Zürich as number one city worth visiting. In my… Read more →
“Lost between Europe and Africa, it belongs to nowhere. It belongs to nowhere, never having belonged to nowhere. To Spain and the Arabs and the Phoenicians more than anything. But as if he had never really had a destiny. No fate. Left out of time and history” David Herbert Lawrence, Sea and Sardinia, 1921 I wanted to start with… Read more →
There is a reason if William Shakespeare set one of his most famous plays in Verona: Romeo and Juliet made this city the emblem of love. The city is located in the North East of Italy, in the region of Veneto, and it has been established that the first settlement can be dated back to the Neolithic era. Verona has been… Read more →
Like so many great cities in Europe, León was founded by the Romans. With a history going back to antiquity, León has a large amount of richly cultural things to see, and delicious nourishment to eat and drink. Here is the must-have travel guide for the Spanish city of León. 1. Get Your Private Tour Guide… Sort of Before… Read more →
Venice, Italy…. A city so beautiful that many others all around the globe claim to be similar. A city so beautiful that there are two replicas, one in China and one in Las Vegas. A city so beautiful that there are seven cities in North America named after the Italian city. Venice is located in the north-east of Italy in… Read more →
It was once said that the best way to spend your money would by travelling: for the insight, wisdom, joy and friendships you would get, experience and make is said to be priceless. While many people agree that travelling broadens the mind, it also narrows it in a certain way. For when you travel, you tend not to have enough… Read more →
“How on Earth can you travel so much!?”. I am pretty sure that many of you have heard these words already. We are AEGEEans, we are tireless travellers and adventurers – yet at the same time we are young and (most of us) students that many times cannot afford the typical travel expenditures. When was the last time you travelled… Read more →
A lot of students dream about spending one or two semester abroad in a foreign country. And why not? The experience is amazing; you get to meet all these new amazing people from different countries with various backgrounds. You get to go to parties and stay out as late as you want. You can go on trips, see a country… Read more →
One of the cheapest ways to travel is hitchhiking, which is also used by AEGEEans, with some locals even organising hitchhiking competitions. Still though, many people haven’t tried it before and might even be scared to try. Are you one of them? Don’t worry! The AEGEEan has written a short hitchhiking course to help you out! How to prepare? Before… Read more →
Geographically, León is one of the most diverse provinces in the whole of Spain. On one hand, it is filled with high mountains (covered in snow during winter), steep cliffs and valleys sheltering lakes and gorges. On the other hand, it is blessed with flat plains watered by León’s rivers and streams which provide herds with pastures, and farmers with land… Read more →
