8 Reasons Why I Chose France for Study Abroad and Travel

Thinking of France, you might imagine the iconic Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triumph or the famous smile of Mona Lisa. You might think of drinking coffee in the lively Paris cafés where great intellectuals lingered in past times, or of eating croissants in a local bistro of a sleepy but gorgeous village in the countryside.

Living below sea level

Hi everyone!

Sorry for the long delay in blog posts, I've been really busy getting settled in. I think I've adjusted well to Leiden, I know my way around the city pretty well (at least the inner city), and I can successfully find my way to and from my source of food, a supermarket called Hoogvliet. 

Getting Here

The first leg of my flight was wonderful. There were 50 seats filled and 160 seats open. At first I was the only unlucky person to have someone sitting next to them. Soon after, though, I had the common sense to move up a row so I could stretch out and enjoy the flight. It seems that not too many people want to go to London in January.