Suzanna Fatyan │susanna202001@yahoo.com In the spring of 2006, I was accepted to the MA Euroculture programme in Poland. Childhood memories suddenly took over me: my Mom playing Chopin – ballad, nocturne, waltz and mazurek (mazurka). Music filling the house. A lovely cake with a similar name, full of walnuts and raisins baked by my Granny. … Continue reading My Memories of Krakow: the Heart of Polish Culture and Cuisine
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Marseille, a lively multicultural city and ancient Greek port, still continues to live from the sea. Walking from the Gare St. Charles, you can already feel it: the sound of people out in the streets and the view and smell of the sea… Marseille-Provence 2013 has extensively worked on this dimension to make its programme’s … Continue reading Marseille-Provence 2013: A dive into the Mediterranean
Laura Marchetti│laura-marchetti@live.it I’m not really fond of cooking. Don’t get me wrong, nobody likes eating more than I do! I just hate the preparation process. And being an Italian abroad doesn’t really help, as people usually have high expectations of my cooking skills. For this reason, during the past couple of years, I have collected … Continue reading Italian cuisine for dummies
Eunjin Jeong l eunjin.lynn@gmail.com Housing is a very important issue for MA Euroculture students because they get to move constantly as part of the curriculum. For some, getting a room in new places has been easy but as most of them admittedly say, they were lucky. The truth of Euroculture housing is here: It can be … Continue reading No More “I don’t know” on Euroculture Housing Issue
Bianca Rubino│biancarubino@gmail.com Groningen is a university town in the Netherlands with less than two hundred thousand inhabitants in which about every one out of five is a student. Groningen has a vibrant cultural life full of theatre, exhibitions, and concerts’ events. And yes, it plays a very central role in international underground music scene. Since the nineties, … Continue reading Eurosonic Festival: starting the year with the right beat!
Kazimierz, the historic Jewish quarter of Krakow is what I am interested in as I sit in one of the Jewish style cafés that have appeared in the last 20 years, looking at hipster tourists from Berlin trying to distinguish themselves from the ‘mainstream’ tourism in the city centre, while a youth group from Israel passes … Continue reading Live Your Interests! My Immersion into the Local Jewish Community
It usually starts every 13th of December after I ‘release’ myself from the library where I was studying for my final exams. It is time for Saint Lucia’s Day, or Santa Lucia as we call it in Sweden, and with a lussebullar in my hand I join the Lucia celebration in Stora Torget, Uppsala’s main … Continue reading Christmas in Sweden − Living in a snowball: Do not shake It, please
Christmas market is situated in the small square in front of the Altes Rathaus, where the famous Gänseliesel stands, giving thousands of people the chance to walk through the narrow streets of the market and buy souvenirs and gifts. The visitors try Gluhwein, a warmed wine which constitutes the traditional German winter drink, and taste wurst bursts, curry wurst, … Continue reading Göttingen – Christmas in Grimms’ town
Cologne Christmas markets have became hotspots for tourist from all around the world during the pre-Christmas period and are especially famous for visitors from neighbouring countries. There are several high-speed train connections via Thalys or ICE to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. Furthermore, Cologne airport hosts different low cost airlines for visitors travelling by plane. These … Continue reading Cologne – The gateway of Europe to the German Christmas market experience
I come from a big city in Pakistan but I enjoy roaming around in this small, accessible town. Don’t get me wrong: I’d be the last person to categorise Bilbao as ‘provincial’, but it is, for some amazing reason, free of the worries of life in a big town. The people are happier, the air … Continue reading An Ode to Bilbao
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