A Long Weekend in the South of Spain: a Trip to Sevilla, Granada, and Cordoba Part of my program with LIU Global is extended trips, and this semester includes several trips around Spain. If you’ve kept up with my travels this semester, you’ve seen that I’ve participated in the Camino de Santiago and traveled to Barcelona with my school. This
A Weekend Break in Belgium I’m in love with Belgium. There are a select few places I’ve traveled that I could see myself living in the future, and Belgium was just added to the list! We had Thursday off for All Saints Day, so my friend Kendall and I flew into Brussels on Wednesday after classes and enjoyed a couple
Highlights of Barcelona, Spain This week, the LIU Global kids spent 4 days exploring the vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain, learning about the culture, tourism, and the independence movement. Continue on to read about the highlights of the city. La Sagrada Familia It’s only fair to start with the most famous building in the city of Barcelona. Designed by world-renowned
An Un-Beer-Lievable Weekend at Munich’s Oktoberfest Almost from the moment that I knew that I would be attending LIU Global, I knew for certain that I wanted to go to Oktoberfest during my sophomore year. I’m young and I’m in Europe, how could I have passed up the opportunity to check this festival off of my bucket list? Fortunately, my
36 Hours in Geneva, Switzerland My first weekend in Spain found my friends and I furiously planning weekend trips for the semester, and the first order of business was to find a destination to celebrate my friend Kendall’s 20th birthday. Enter a cheap flight to Geneva. For $52 roundtrip on EasyJet, we found ourselves in Switzerland for the weekend. We
Highlights of Berlin, Germany Before the LIU Global Class of 2021 makes its way to Spain, we had a week in London and 10 days in Berlin to study the emergence of the nation-state. That may sound somewhat boring, but it involves a lot of amazing excursions around the cities and an abundance of free time to explore on our
A Magical Day at the Warner Brothers Harry Potter Studios The start of a new semester with LIU Global finds me in London, England, and I knew that I could not make a second trip to this incredible city without seeing the Harry Potter studios. So, in May, I started dreaming up plans for going early to London to make
An In-Depth Look at For years, I imagined myself at a prestigious college, pursuing an International Relations major in large lecture halls by day and studying in my adorably decorated dorm room by night. Little did I know that instead of a large university, I would be pursuing a Global Studies degree in a dozen different cities with a