Life in Vic, Spain

Hello everyone!

My name is Paavo Pengermä. Back in Finland I’m studying in Tampere University of Applied sciences in degree programme of Film and Television. This fall semester 2015 I’m doing my exchange studies in Vic, Spain.

In this post I want to show you guys more or less all that I’ve been doing here during this awesome experience. I’ve been staying Spain now for almost 4 months and time has gone so fast. We have done all kinds of awesome things here such ass partying with other erasmus students, skateboarding in Barcelona, exploring other cities in Spain, travelling to Africa and France & surfing there, hiking in Pyrenees, playing basketball in the university team, and of course also studying a little bit. 😀
All my course choices has been good and I’ve enjoyed more or less every course. They aren’t too demanding eighter which leaves time for travelling & other fun stuff.

A picture tells more than a thousand words so here I have a whole gallery of pictures that should sum up quite nicely my experiences here.

Here’s a picture from my basic view on a sunday morning. Just hand around the in the balcony and sun bate a little.

Here’s a picture taken 100 meters from my home in Vic

This is the central square in Vic called Placa Mayor. There is and has been a market twice a week for centuries.

It’s ridiculous how much water bottles we have to buy here..

We’ve been tasting all shorts of unfamiliar foods here

Barcelonaa! Just one hour away from Vic.

View from our climb to Barcelonas highest mountain, Tibidabo.

Got there just in time before the sunset!

They even have an amusement park in Tibidabo.

Bcn nightlife. At the beach with dozen of clubs by the beach.

Fun weekend. Sites film festival & Bcn Electric Run festival!

Another trip. This time to a whole another continent, Africa! Stayed one week on Moroccos capital Rabat & small city near it.

There were a lllots of cats moaning for food in the streets.

A wall on a busy market street in Rabat.

Stopped by for a coffee at a huge park in centre of Rabat

You have to let the inner child free every once in a while…

The food in Marocco was really good and cheap.

Once you are in Africa, you just simply have to ride a camel..

We have also been hiking a lot since Pyrenees & other mountain areas are so near.

Trip to Montserrat. A foggy city in the mountains.

Decent climb to almost 3000m in Pyrenees.

On top of the world! Well, almost at least..

To sum all this together. The experience has been really awesome like I said already. I hadn’t been travelling too much before coming here but now I’ve changed that. 🙂 I’ve seen and experienced a lot of cool stuff and learned a lot of new cultures. I definitely recommend everyone to do exchange studies. It’s a once in a life time thing that teaches you a lot, gives you new friends from all around the world and makes you one huge experience richer.
Even though Spain is great and I have always loved it, I’ve noticed after 4 months of living here that Finland is actually a really great country to live in. That’s what I’ve used to and the culture is more like me in general. Also everything seems to work faster and better in Finland. So for me travel is great but my home is always home.

Best regards
Paavo Pengermä

Life in Vic, Spain

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