Studying Abroad

Hey guys!

I'll be studying abroad next semester in France and I'll have two, one-week vacations during my 5 months there...plus summer if I haven't spent all my money by then

It'll be my first time in Europe and I hear traveling by plane is relatively cheap.
Any suggestions on where to go and what to see?

If European PA'ers would like to show me around, I'm totally open to a tour guide!

-bigsmile

 

don't take planes...take trains!!! you can go anywhere and it's pretty cheap...basically with 2 weeks time you can go to so many places already like london --> italy ---> to amsterdam damn, i want to study abroad, how much does it cost?

 

come to germany and ill show ya around

 

^ Tisken is German? I thought you was Canadian


If you are in France you should visit the south of France for the summer because it's gorgeous.

Spain is beautiful if you like the arts and what not.

England for the typical London tours and you can take the Eurostar through the Channel Island.

All places you can take the train instead of taking planes

 

im planning to go to paris in january (just few days trip)

 

I don't pay tuition to the program, I pay directly to my school and it's no different from my school's regular tuition. ~20,000K per semester (though I don't actually pay that amount) My school also deducts airfare from tuition as a form of..reimbursement. Not sure how public Canadians schools deal with studying abroad since I think home tuition is considerably cheaper than abroad (at least from the universities and programs I've looked at). The program I'm attending charges about 15K, but that's irrelevant to me...haha

I'm actually going to be in Aix-en-Provence!
I'll probably travel by Eurostar as you suggested, but I don't plan to use ground transportation if I make plans to go to...say, Berlin

-sweat...but I actually don't really know how long travel time will take per place until I get around to the actual date. If anyone wants to give me traveling time approximations, :biggthumpup:

 

there is an airline in europe called "ryanair"
the flights are veeerrry cheap. but i havent tried it yet, since i do not travel that much.
you pay like 10-30€? for a ticket....

anybody has experience with ryanair ?

 

I once heard Ryanair is very sneaky with their cheap deals. I remember that they said that the tickets are £1 but what we didn't know is that its only Visa-Electron payments are valid, other cards had to have about £10 sub-charge.

Also you will have to make sure whether the tickets includes taxes or not

 

yeah, i heard about ryanair, but it's only cheap if you don't bring any luggage with you lol

 

I always take Ryanair to travel around europe.. that is also how i went to London for PA meeting.. but yea ryanair is cheapest of them all.. you can get cheap tickets of around 30-50 euros.. really depends which days you want to fly.. but indeed you have to pay for your luggage.. rather logical thats the way they earn money.. you think they earn that much from 30 euros per person? thats already the price for the total fuel xD

But there is a downside of flying cheap.. most of the time the airports they operate in is rather far away of the bigger cities.. so you have to travel aprox 2 hours to just get to the airport.. so train is always better because its for sure cheaper.. and you can bring all the luggage you want.. and also safer... =P

 

ryanair is cheap. just like any other budget airline. personally i like prague.