Spending time with those less fortunate than yourself can be a real eye opener, even more so if that time is spend thousands of miles away from home. Lois Helan tells her story.
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Dream New Year’s Eve getaways to suit every budget
Looking for a way to blow your Christmas cash and have a crazy time with your mates? Or are you simply bored of celebrating the new year at home with your parents and a bunch of lame party hats? We’ve got several suggestions that will hopefully make this year’s celebrations memorable…
Skipping town: affordable day trips out of Sheffield
Sheffield is a lovely city, sure. And many of us have little money to spare at the end of the month. So why spend time and money to venture outside the city boundaries during our relatively brief sojourns in Sheffield?
Foreign Correspondent: My first week abroad
My first week in Nice is drawing to a close and what a week it has been.
Foreign Correspondent: Royal Wedding
This fortnight our foreign correspondent is an Erasmus student in Heidelberg, a city in south-west Germany, who has been watching the royal wedding.
Life’s a beach: Ibiza vs Newquay
With summer just around the corner, many of us are thinking about taking a well-deserved break and jetting off somewhere hot with our friends…
Last-minute travel ideas for your long summer break
So what do you do after you’ve survived all your exams and commemorated the occasion with pitchers of Pimm’s in the Union beer garden? Suddenly there is this big void in your life, also known as ‘fifteen weeks of freedom’…
To go or not to go?
Many of us will take a year abroad as part of our degree but is it really worth it? Four students reflect on their own experiences