A nice summer evening temperature, fancy dressed women and a party that most of the foreigners don’t know the existence of. To be honest, I had never heard of Maritxu either. My mistake it seems. Read more…
Maritxu Kajoi. Say what? For foreigners it’s yet again an unpronounceable Basque word, but for the whole Basque Country it’s one of the biggest parties of the year. Read more…
The film festival in San Sebastian, that was something that we absolutely did not want to miss. But to spend a complete day in a movie theatre while the sun is doing her extreme best, no that’s maybe a bridge too far. Read more…
Apparently we’re with more than just 14 Erasmus students at Mondragon. Today the university organized a gathering for all the Erasmus students. HUHEZI went a bit more international with the three faculties together for once. Read more…
Last week we didn’t do much, so it’s about time to get more active. Next on the agenda: San Sebastián International Film Festival. I guess the title of this post says it all. Read more…
Already four blog updates and in none of the four posts do I talk about football. That’s not very common for me, time for some change. Read more…
Everybody knows the sound of the “you’ve got mail” alert. Usually I don’t check it directly because the spam mails I get these days are countless. But this e-mail was different from all that other rubbish in my junk folder: this time I wasn’t visitor 1 000 000 at some website I’ve never been to, it wasn’t even advertising for Viagra. No, for once, it was a rather important e-mail. Read more…
Yesterday we didn’t have any food at home, so we decided to go out for dinner. Everybody -except Sanne, because she was feeling ill- was looking forward to some pintxos in one of the local bars in Bergara. Unfortunately, there was sort of a town party in Bergara, and every bar was too crowded for just having a nice, quiet dinner. Read more…
We have been in the Basque Country for over a week now, but this Friday was our first weekend we were all together. Still being the students that we are, it would be really ridiculous to wait a day longer to go partying. Read more…
At home, everybody was sceptical about me leaving for the Basque Country. “Why the Basque Country?”, they asked. “It’s always raining over there and the only news you hear is about the ETA and their terrorist attacks. If you absolutely want to go to Spain, then go to a warm and safe place in that country.” Read more…
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