One of my favorite things about this program is that we get refunded for any travel in Spain, cultural activities, and extracurricular activities. This allows low-income students like me to really live a study abroad experience with fewer setbacks. More specifically it allowed me to have one of the most beautiful weekends of my life […]
Lydia, me, and Meghan in Toledo enjoying ice cream. So, you want to travel while in Spain? In this blog, I’ve put together a list of websites of where to find, buy, and book flights, stays, and more. SInce I’m a visual person, one of the first things I do is either print out or […]
The program has just completed our second trip of the spring semester! We spent a night in Toledo this weekend, and it was so refreshing. As I mentioned last semester, we had gone to El Escorial, Segovia, and Granada. This semester, we had the option of going to El Escorial again, we went to Toledo, and […]
This past Saturday, we traveled to El Escorial, a beautiful monastery and palace built in the late 1500s. It is one of the most important sites of the Spanish Renaissance and in 1984, it was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site. Built about 30 miles from Madrid, it is situated at the base of the […]
This weekend, I took a trip to Lisbon, Portugal with my sister, Yabi. As I had mentioned in a previous blog, she had come to visit me for a week. Thus, from Wednesday afternoon to Friday afternoon, we were out of Madrid. Initially, she desperately wanted to visit Sevilla, but we also thought it would have been interesting to travel […]
During Semana Santa, my friends and I decided to do some travel outside of Spain. First, we went to Copenhagen, Denmark. Upon landing, I realized that I was going to immediately find my gloves and scarf, as the weather was significantly colder than anything we had experienced in Madrid. Our hostel was less than […]
At the beginning of April, some friends and I from the Tufts-Skidmore program used our travel stipend within Spain to go to Mallorca. We had a large group, so we ultimately were unable to stay in Palma. This actually wound up being a wonderful thing because we found the precious town called Port D’Andratx, which […]
Nuestra jornada de viernes empezaba algo temprano y sobre todo con muchas ganas de emprender uno de nuestros viajes finales como estudiantes, mentores e intercambios. La experiencia de este viaje realmente ha sido increíble, no solo por las vistas de la sierra de Madrid y el valle de Lozoya o poder conocer la existencia de […]
¡NOS VAMOS A LA SIERRA DE MADRID! Viajaremos al pasado a conocer un poco más sobre los Neandertales. Veremos un bosque finlandés. El Puente del Perdón. El Monasterio del Paular… Y mucho más!! FECHA: 24 de noviembre de 2017 HORA SALIDA: Alcalá 10.30am / Madrid 11:00am ¡Apúntate al viaje que tus mentoras y mentores hemos […]
Después de un largo semestre lleno de experiencias, gente nueva, viajes y más viajes… llegó una de las actividades más esperadas del año, EL VIAJE CON LOS MENTORES. Queríamos que esta actividad fuera inolvidable y deseo fervientemente decir que así lo fue. Os voy a contar lo que pasó: Elegir el sitio siempre es lo […]