{"id":524,"date":"2017-05-22T08:39:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-abroad\/?p=524"},"modified":"2017-05-22T08:39:00","modified_gmt":"2017-05-22T08:39:00","slug":"student-blog-helen-spring-in-tubingen-weekend-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/2017\/05\/22\/student-blog-helen-spring-in-tubingen-weekend-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Blog: Helen – “Spring in T\u00fcbingen & weekend break”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So– it’s been a while. My last post got lost in the computer system, which is why there’s been a break. However, I am evidently back again to tell you about the *cough* interesting weather we’ve had, and about the weekend trip I took to Berlin (and probably some other things too).<\/p>\n

Within the past month and a half we’ve essentially had all four seasons- no joke. One week it was around 25 degrees and I (laughably) got a slight tan, then there was a lot of rain- I think all the rain we ought to have had the rest of the year- and hail and snow (yes, snow. In April.) and then we’ve come full circle back to summer weather again. In a word: unpredictable.
\nI can’t lie though, I love this summer weather. I swear we’ve had more sun within the past month than in a year in Lancaster (see also: reasons to study abroad).<\/p>\n

Last weekend (it feels like ages ago) I was in Berlin with some friends who are\/were also on Erasmus and I had such a good time! I was there for a day less than the majority of people, as I had class on the Friday and most people didn’t, but it was really nice to catch up with some of the people who left last semester (even for a short while). We really lucked out with the weather as well- originally we thought it would rain the entire weekend but actually it only rained for a couple of hours on the Sunday. It felt great to get away from Tuebingen and be somewhere a bit bigger; whilst I had been to Berlin before, it was at least 5 years ago so I was able to wander around and get a new feel for it. I think to experience Berlin in its entirety I’d have needed slightly more time than I had, but it was great to be there. One thing that wasn’t as great was the transport there and back- 11 hours on the Flixbus (Megabus but for all of Europe) and 12 and a half hours back, due to delays and, excitingly, being checked for passports by the police. To this day I don’t know why.<\/p>\n

Whilst the bus was not the best part of the trip, it’s very cheap- a lot cheaper than flying or taking the train- which is why when I go to Amsterdam in Pfingsten (the first week of June) we will also be going via Flixbus. There’s a lot of exciting things coming up soon: my mum is coming to visit in a week and a half, then I’m off to Amsterdam, then I should probably study a bit as I have a midterm (ok, maybe that’s not an exciting thing), but life has good things coming, which I’m really happy about.<\/p>\n

That’s about it for now, I’m off to get some rest– talk soon?<\/p>\n

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So– it’s been a while. My last post got lost in the computer system, which is why there’s been a break. However, I am evidently back again to tell you about the *cough* interesting weather we’ve had, and about the weekend trip I took to Berlin (and probably some other things too). Within the past… Continue Reading Student Blog: Helen – “Spring in T\u00fcbingen & weekend break”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\nRead More Student Blog: Helen – “Spring in T\u00fcbingen & weekend break”<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[4,14,15,8,16],"class_list":["post-524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-erasmus","category-germany-destinations","tag-erasmus","tag-germany","tag-student-blog","tag-tubingen","tag-tuebingen","has-post-thumbnail","fallback-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/linguistics-study-abroad-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}