I am currently in Canterbury working at Kent University. Canterbury is probably my favourite English city so far. It has a lovely European feel and lots of history. The main city is surrounded by a brick wall and the cathedral is absolutely magnificent. Best of all, they turned on the Christmas lights last weekend which make the city look even prettier. I must say, something just feels right about looking at all the lights and christmas decorations in the streets...

Hi everyone. I have just finished a week at Trinity College, Dublin. The architecture of some of the buildings in the old part of the College is really impressive. It's funny working at a uni where you are constantly dodging tourists! I have found Dublin to be very different to what I expected. It is very multicultural with most shop assistants being Eastern European. They don't have the best customer service skills, that's for sure! It is also a re...

Hi Everyone I have taken a new job with International Student Volunteers which involves travelling around to different universities in Europe promoting their programs. I get travel and accommodation expenses paid which is pretty cool. The first 2 weeks of the job we trained in Epping Forest (Zone 6 London). Yeah, so basically we were locked up in a dodgy backpackers in a forest in the middle of the woods for a weeks. Bad showers, no TV and lots of hard...

Hi all! I have just spent a week in Edinburgh and it was the most beautiful place - I absolutely loved it there. It is actually quite small (much smaller than Melbourne) which made a nice change from London which apparently now has around 10 million people! I met up with my Scottish friend Dee who showed me around and let me crash at her lovely place for a while. Because she works at the zoo there I also got into lots of stuff for free! I saw Holyrood P...

Our final major destination was Amsterdam. It poured rain for much of the time we were there but it didn't dampen our spirits (hmmm, sorry for the cliche). On our free day in Amsterdam I went and saw the Anne Frank House Museum which was really impressive. Other than that just wondered around the town and sussed out some of the local 'attractions'. Our last night together involved a feed of Chinese food and a booze cruise along the river - and it stop...