Liguria – The Wild West

In the early days of Padova, I joined ESN Italia, which is the Italy-wide Erasmus network that also works in countries all across Europe. They organise events, trips and the like throughout the year and until this point I had never signed up for anything (apart from our ice-skating adventure, but I think that was […]

Venezia and San Giorgio

Italian departments at Universities are always pretty small – cosy, shall we say. One of the upsides of this is that all your non-Italian friends (aka the Spaniards or the solo Frenchies) are more than willing to come visit you in the land of pasta. Unfortunately it hasn’t quite happened yet, although I have a good […]