One of the most overwhelmingly spellbinding buildings of Buenos Aires has to be Palacio Barolo on Avenida de Mayo, not yet crowed with tourists. The Palace was build as a tribute to one of Italia’ s greatest poets, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) of the Middle Ages, and his poetic masterpiece La Divina Commedia (The Divine Comedy,
One Of the Worlds Most Bike-Friendly Cities Without doubt cycling is the most enjoyable form of moving around Buenos Aires. When it feels like the traffic of the city turns rather anarchic, its more than feasible to enter it with only two wheels. In fact, you both get to know the neighborhoods and getting around
As I did two semesters of Kulturstudier in Buenos Aires I was fortunate to have the opportunity to travel neighboring countries for two months over the Christmas break. I set out for my first backpack-trip ever, all by my self with my priceless book “South-America on a budget”, and it undoubtedly turned out to be
We have been studying for some weeks now, and already gotten to know the city quite well. When I’m not studying, I like to discover what the city has to offer. First time I travelled to Hoi An (2014) I didn’t have too much time, also I spend a lot of time partying with the
Picture this: You are standing in a wooden tower, 15 meters above the green pampas soil beneath you. Bare toes, a flower dress, the wind tickling your chin. From south and east, from above, north and west, the imperious sun is making the never-ending flat landscape shine. And a festival occurring all around you. Vamos
Peace and Conflict Studies as a discipline itself becomes significant today. We live in a world where conflicts are changing and increasing. There is no World War going on, but there are wars all the same. Peace and Conflict Studies, is important, as a discipline due to its very belief in peace, in its hope
Inhabitants of the port city Buenos Aires are called porteños. In order to speed up the process of learning the porteño way of speaking spanish, there are some words you smoothly can add to your daily dictionary to sound more like a native. That is to say, you need to learn a bit of Italian,
On 8th February we ate an early lunch and then got up on two buses to make a journey to the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Madras, now called Chennai. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the educational institutions of India, IIT is the best institute in India to study engineering and
This weekend we got the change to travel outside Hoi An and learn more about the people in the Co Tu villages, as well as we learnt more about how to do field work. We were divided into groups, where some chose to focus on environment, tourism, gender, and the political system. The group that
It is early Saturday morning in Hoi An, despite the hour a crowd has gathered at Balance café where Mr Vinh meets us with a big smile and wishing us good morning. He has prepared a full day of activities for us! Our first stop is at a local restaurant where we will have Vietnamese
