In the end I’m glad I started this blog and hope you’ve enjoyed reading my public diary of sorts. My intention was to be informative and entertaining, to provide my own take on the Erasmus experience. I’ve had fun writing it even if it took almost forever to finish!
One last time I’d like to thank all those who made possible and contributed to my Erasmus Escapade. I’m not good with goodbyes and have used up my limited German so instead I’ll give a nod towards my Mexican friends, adiós!
Brian
This is quite possibly one of the best places I’ve ever been. Steam trains, heavy industry, airplanes, cars, bikes, computers, printing presses, telescopes, prosthetic limbs and robots. I could have easily spent a week there. If you are in any way technically minded and have a pulse then you must go here, it really is as simple as that. This museum essentially houses a showcase of Austrian engineering and its exhibits are incredibly impressive. In amongst the stuff on early cartography and solar clocks you’ll even find a piece on Ireland’s’ very own wonder; Newgrange. This is one of those times where words cannot do justice and so I implore you to click that link below.
Technisches Museum Wien, a set on Flickr.
The remaining Irish lads and myself crammed into a taxi early on Monday and made our way to the train station. After spending some time with the same buddy who picked us up on our first day here we bid farewell to Wels and made for Vienna. While technically I had been twice before this was my first time to spend time walking around and taking in the city. What struck me most was the number and sheer size of the palaces and other impressive buildings, this is clearly a historically rich region. We booked into a hostel then made our way to the zoo where the Pandas absolutely stole the show for me. I could have stayed there watching them the whole time but thankfully we moved around as the rest of the zoo was equally brilliant, Lions look funny in snow.
Tuesday morning was all about the Technical Museum, so good it gets its own post above. After that we split to regroup later. I took in some street art with Paul and got up close to the WW2 flak tower that’s now an aquarium. We met up with the others at a bar that had an interesting story never mind name. Flanagans (no ‘O’ unfortunately) started off as Flannerys in Cork to then be taken apart, shipped to Vienna, rebuilt and opened in 1996. While there are many pubs around the world claiming to be Irish this one was the real deal if not even more so since you can still smoke in a pub in Austria meaning that along with the wonky floor it felt properly old school. There may have been more pubs that night, there may not have been. I certainly wouldn’t want to get this far and start incriminating myself now, would I?
For some utterly illogical reason Paul and I thought that the 340 odd steps worth of spiral staircase at St Stephens Cathedral was a great way to start Wednesday. I tried to record a video walking back down the stairs but the constant turning left screwed with my sense of balance and I decided that breaking my arse falling down the steps wasn’t worth the youtube fame. The views from the top were fantastic just don’t be tight and pay the extra few euro to take the lift, easier all round. After that we headed back to the hostel to pack up, kill a few hours and catch the plane. I really enjoyed Vienna and only wish I had more time there. Links to the zoo and Vienna pictures are below.
Vienna Zoo, a set on Flickr
Dublin Via Vienna, a set on Flickr.
This week inevitably and unfortunately I bid farewell to Wels and the friends I made there, for now. On Tuesday we had our last exam and our lecturer kindly moved it to an earlier date to accommodate the leaving foreign students. This action epitomised the great attitude of everyone at FH Wels and in particular I would like to thank all those in the international office. All our lecturers have been great but our physics lecturer in particular provided many moments of laughter thanks to his sometimes dodgy English, wonderful sense of humour and eccentric nature. Here are a couple of his odd and funny observations; “my main reason for not wanting an electric car is that if my wife uses it for shopping this would cost me more money because she will keep shopping while it charges“. “I have saved one ton of CO2 because I am bald and do not have to use a hair dryer”. “I don’t drink without driving”. In one class a number of Austrians were speaking in German and after questioning them then laughing he turned to us saying “I asked them what is the problem? They said: in between the chairs and the blackboard”. I can’t imagine many people being able to just laugh that off!
One of the Mexicans left this week as well and we had a night out at karaoke to say goodbye to her. Having never taken part before and gotten bored of listening to pop covers I decided to have a go at Thin Lizzys’ The Boys Are Back In Town. After chipping in early I figured I was now safe from having to perform again but behind my back the crafty Swedish women signed up the Finnish lads and me to sing some ABBA. Not knowing anything other than the chorus, myself and one of the Finns decided the other Finn who also happened to be the most sober of our trio should be in the middle with the microphone allowing us to dance like fools and jump in to shout Gimme Gimme Gimme when required. I’m sure it was entertaining but I don’t think they’ll be asking us back.
Our last class was on Friday and I took a set of pictures to show the journey from the student res. to the college. After that I had the bureaucratic stuff like closing my bank account, college library account and getting back the accommodation deposit. My room was packed on Saturday with all the Irish and Fins having beer and pizza while watching Braveheart. My last day in Wels was Sunday and it was just like so many other days here except that for once my room was clean since my room mate was already gone and I had to pack. I said goodbye to our Scandinavian contingent at the pool hall before doing the same with our Turkish kardesims and Mexican amigos at home.
I suppose now is as good a time as any to say thank you to all of my fellow students; the Austrians and the crazy foreigners. We certainly made for an eclectic bunch and without getting all sappy I will say that I will forever cherish the (too short!) time we had together. I look forward to the re-unions! Of course I must say thanks to my room mate as well. Thank you all once again for making this such a fantastic time in my life.
Week16, a set on Flickr.
Two of my Irish class mates and myself made the short journey the Mauthausen memorial on Thursday. If you have visited one of these camps then you know that it is very difficult to describe how it felt especially when you realise these inhuman places shut less than seventy years ago. I’m unsure as to whether I would go so far to say that I would recommend visiting a concentration camp but personally I thought it was very important to gain a balanced view on the history of the place I was living in and that since history is prone to repetition we must always remember these horrendous events so that they never happen again to any group.
Mauthausen, a set on Flickr.
Last year a group of Austrians from Wels had their Erasmus in my college. We met with them again at one of the parties in FH Wels and Doris said she would bring me to an ice hockey game since I’d never been before. On Sunday we went to the see the Black Wings of Linz play at home against VSV. The Black Wings were poor at the start conceding too many goals and despite ultimately losing, their fight back made for a great game. Well worth the ticket price and I would definitely go again. Like the Salzburg match the crowd had plenty of varied chants and songs, they even had a poster for refereeing decisions they didn’t agree with.
Entertainment between the thirds was fantastic. In the first break the people who had caught the balls thrown into the crowd before the game were brought onto the rink with a partner. One of them sat on a ice sled while the other pulled them around a course of half the rink and the fastest pair (including many falls) won free beer at every home game for a year, they were very determined! In the next break people from the crowd were again brought onto the rink but this time had to score a goal from the halfway point with the goal having a board with slot just big enough for the puck. No one scored to win the big cheque but the tension was brilliant.
Linz Black Wings, a set on Flickr.
The snow is at its heaviest this week, I love how it changes the look of a place. On Wednesday I joined the Swedes and a few others for some indoor rock climbing. Thursday, I took a couple of photos when myself and a few of the Irish lads went for a walk around Wels. The icicles on some of the buildings are unbelievably big and don’t require much of a stretch of the imagination to see them do some serious damage. The signs warning of roof avalanche and the wooden bars blocking the parts of paths with roofs overhanging them are common place but seem very weird for a mild climate individual like me.
On Friday I went to the college ball in Steyr to meet up with the friends I had made at the international evening there. A lot of coffee was required for the Saturday morning Matlab class. Sitting beside one of our Swedish colleagues I discovered the difference between a product of the Irish education system and the Swedish one; the Irish student reviews the problem, realises they have no hope of understanding it and gives up while the Swede tries ten different methods, fails and then gives up. Conclusion: Matlab is a head wrecker. We of course frequented the usual haunts on Saturday.
Week15, a set on Flickr.
Took a day trip to Vienna on Sunday with the Swedes and Finns. They have a design class in which one group is investigating what the interior of a driverless car would look like and another looking at what a solar powered car of the future might resemble. I of course joined them because I’m a petrol head and don’t require a reason to leer at the latest automotive offerings. While I was disappointed for them as there were less concept cars than I had expected the show itself was quite good and had a few hidden gems like the Toyota 2000 GT and Lexus LFA. We spent a few hours more in Vienna, took a quick look at St. Stephens Cathedral and had some grub, I’m getting quite the taste for goulash. I apologise for the average photo quality, I had to use my phone because my camera had a hissy fit and decided that it would do everything other than take a picture despite my best attempts at resolving the problem. It of course decided for no reason at all to start working on the train home, marvellous.
Dublin gave me a parting gift of a cold so most of this week was seen through a haze of strepsils, paracetamol and cough syrup. Other than that it was a return to normality being thrown straight back in at the deep end on Monday with classes all week including Saturday (oh how I missed that!) and an exam on Tuesday. On Friday the college had another international evening but this time it was an opportunity for the Austrian students who had been abroad to present their Erasmus host country. I met the two women that had been in Ireland and was happy to hear they had enjoyed their time in Waterford and Maynooth but more importantly that they hadn’t made the classic mistake of spending too much time in Dublin and not enough time everywhere else. I also met a guy from Sao Paulo who’s here for a month doing research but of course the topic of our conversation was his city’s most famous resident, the late great Aryton Senna.
There was a photo competition between the students studying here and you can see what they submitted above. A group of us went for dinner afterwards which was followed by another night of billiards. My Korean colleague and I formed a potent partnership which I dubbed the Super South. Wax on, wax off.
We had a surprise belated birthday party on Saturday in the other student res for one of our Spanish amigos who didn’t appreciate seeing her age on a cake!
Week14, a set on Flickr.
Two weeks flew by and I enjoyed spending plenty of time with family and friends. Unlike my time in Austria I didn’t keep record of what I did when I was back and since this is first and foremost a blog of my time abroad, I’ll keep this brief. I finally got to see Skyfall and it was brilliant, the theme especially. I made it to the Leinster game on new years and despite the rusty play combined with one hell of chill in the air I enjoyed my return to the blue fortress. I spent some time in the city centre and Stephens Green especially struck me as something which Dubliners take for granted.
While I enjoyed being back, eating all the food in the house and sleeping till lunch time I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t looking forward to my last month in Austria.
Christmas 2012, a set on Flickr.
The owners of our student residence had a party on Monday with punch and a variety of biscuits which along with the decorations and snow gave a proper Christmas feeling to the place. Tuesday and Wednesday were uneventful with the last class of a module and on Thursday we had an exam. After this we had no more immediate commitments and so we celebrated the end of exams and the beginning of the holidays with our always up for a laugh hosts.On Saturday all of us Irish travelled back to Dublin via Salzburg and the view from the airport lounge in particular was incredible, we could even see a cable car making its perilous journey up and down.As I’m sure you would have guessed, being home after three months in a foreign country is fairly odd. In fact just using the word ‘home’ with its various connotations is weird for me.
On Monday we had a big organised snowball fight outside the Kolping, after we got bored fighting each other we decided to build snowmen together with varying levels of success. It was way too cold to take of my gloves and get a picture so for those of you at home giving out about the cold, man up and try -15. I also got myself a set of boots for €29, bargain!
Class this week was better than usual. We just started Physics and I’m enjoying it already, the lecturer has a great sense of humour and the subject matter focuses on electric cars in particular so there’s no complaints from me. Wednesday involved myself and a couple of the other internationals heading to our colleges’ sibling campus in Steyr for their International Evening. For me especially this was a lot of fun because of how little of our own evening I got to see. The food, drinks and people(for the most part) were great. Once again the French contingent delivered with some quality quiche. I enjoyed the Vietnamese spring roll type dish so much so that I told everyone else to try it and the reaction I got wasn’t exactly positive, oops. I found the chicken, peanut and bread bap style sandwich very sweet but oddly enjoyable, thanks Taiwan. The Netherlands had prepared bacon infused pancakes, definitely an idea I’ll be stealing. The most well received food seemed to be the rye bread and meat or fish with tartar sauce combination from Denmark. While I agree it was good , for me the the Finnish food was the highlight. One of the Finns here was a little annoyed to say the least when he heard those damn southerners living in Steyr had messed up his local dish, from an objective point of view it was good enough to not give a damn. The pastry, cream cheese and scrambled egg combination which makes up their version of karjalanpiiraka (‘karriempeelaka’) was fantastic especially combined with their home made bread. There was a lot more but at this point I’ve probably made you hungry enough as it is and to be honest every country had samples of their local drink as well so you know how it is.
Saturday marked the first of our Christmas break farewells with the Swedes having a get together in their house. It made me realise how much I’ll miss this eclectic bunch, thankfully I’ll be back for another month after Christmas!
Week12, a set on Flickr.
A hectic week with lots going on. Monday to Wednesday I was busy with college work trying to get as much as I could done before the weekend. On Thursday we had an International evening in the FH. I brought potato farls that I made, bought some Irish cheddar and of course the obligatory Guinness, which almost everyone said tasted like very weak espresso. I met a load of new people and was pleasantly surprised at the number of them who had visited Ireland, hopefully I taught them a little about the green isle. Seeing people’s reaction to viewing a game of Hurling for the first time never gets old and despite the fact that I was by myself I thoroughly enjoyed having interested and interesting people coming up and chat with me. Our friend Peter in the international office took a great set of pictures which you can see here. That demon thing beside St. Nikolaus is called a Krampus, info on him here. As I was so busy I didn’t get to see much of the rest of the stands but I did grab some of the food that the French prepared, crepes and quiche. Tres bien!
Week11, a set on Flickr.
On Friday myself, three of the Irish and our honorary Irishman from South Korea headed to Hallstatt. A short train ride and we arrived at the boat which took us across the river and into Hallstatt giving us the wonderful view above. We found our hostel and headed out on a torch (it was a candle!) walk tour of the town. We met an Aussie when we were having dinner and headed out with some locals to a bar in Obertraun across the river. We doubled the amount of people in the place, including staff, when we arrived and it felt very west of Ireland. By that I of course mean I could almost hear the plucking of banjo strings in the background, if you’ve seen Deliverance you’ll understand the vibe.
On Saturday our Nordic pals arrived and we had a look at the town in daylight. The Christmas market with it’s brass band, stalls and punch in snow made for perfect postcard pictures. My favourite moment however was the nine of us taking over half of a pub for lunch and tucking into some wonderful goulash. The pub had some intriguing pictures which combined the same view but from different eras in the same picture like this. We reluctantly left Hallstatt and when we got back to Wels myself and Paul had a fantastic traditional Austrian meal with our buddy and his girlfriend at their flat.
That’s it for this week tune in next time for more tales of interest.
Hallstatt, a set on Flickr.
P.S. take a look at the Swedes blog here.
(If like me you don’t speak very good Swedish then use google chrome as your browser because it can translate the page as you read it).
Saw this little train in a shop and had to share it.
Went to the Christmas market in the old town centre on Monday and got talking to the woman at the hot chocolate stand, turns out she lived in Sandymount for 4 years and worked at O’Connell’s in Donnybrook, small world.
Had the usual mix of classes along with our last German lesson. Our lecturer asked us to make a poster presentation of our final impressions of Austria (thankfully there’s no need to worry, I’m here for a good while yet!). I took the opportunity to show off my incredible artistic skill and produced the masterpiece above. Thankfully none of the Austrians have taken offence to it, they have a great sense of humour here and know how to take it easy.
On Friday our Mexican Casanova had another gig, the loop station stuff he does is great. Check out his youtube page. On Saturday as myself and my roommate were leaving for our six hour Matlab class I looked into the kitchen and saw it full of smoke. To make a long story short one of the Irish guys had some people over visiting who left bread in the microwave for too long which resulted in one of the funniest text messages I’ve ever received; “6 firemen 2 police and the facility managers came up to examine the bun”. Having seen the fire engine on the way to class we couldn’t contain our laughter when that message came through. That night we had a party in the student res and the next morning my room-mate told me he’d had shots with one of our lecturers, very different to Ireland! On Sunday I made pancakes again and spent some quality time roaming the Christmas market here with friends.
That’s all she wrote.
Week10 a set on Flickr
Not much to tell about this week to be honest. Thursday evening we hung out with the Swedes and Fins and played some pool. I haven’t gotten any better at it. Normal sort of class schedule up until Saturday where we had a class at 8am, I was incredibly happy about this as you can imagine. That night one of our Austrian buddies invited a couple of us to his flat for a dinner; home made organic bread, pasta with chicken and a pastry poppy dessert, lovely. Later he brought us to a moody cocktail bar that seemed like the sort of place only locals know about. On Sunday I made pancakes and in return the Turks made me dinner, success! Egg fried beef with peas, carrots and bread. Clean plate!
The whole town is gearing up for Christmas and it feels like they take it far more seriously than Ireland, I reckon that might be the case because they don’t celebrate Halloween.
Week9, a set on Flickr.
Great start to the week when our Mexican Amigos cooked dinner for myself and Paul who had found a Mexican shop in Vienna and picked up some proper food, they were like kids at Christmas when they saw it all. The dinner was fantastic, so good in fact that we went out and got some more food the next day, invited the Turks and Swedes and had it again.
It was a relatively busy week class wise with the German classes getting a little tough now for my liking but I shall persevere nonetheless.
Saturday afternoon we met up with some Aussies and had a stroll around, taking in the crazy looking protest around town. We met up with the girls after their shopping trip and went to the museum of communism which I can’t recommend highly enough. It may not be big but the information is top notch. Another late night ensued, this time with retro music. Hearing Barbie girl in a club is bizarre.
Sunday morning we joined a tour run from the hostel and our guide Rob was great. Good info, well delivered with a bit of humour to boot. The defenestration was my favourite part. After that we got some traditional Czech food that was divine; Pork Goulash and Dumplings. Myself and the Mexicans then hiked up to the monastery that’s also a brewery. The beer and the view were well worth the effort. We also had a quick look at an art exhibit that was plain bonkers. As you can imagine a quiet night was in order on Sunday.
The foggy Czech countryside was like something out of a horror movie on the way back. Overall Prague is wonderful, the architecture and old style trams in particular but it’s got it’s fair share of downsides too.
As always thanks for reading, responding and check out the rest of my pictures:
Prague, a set on Flickr.
The college ball was on Friday and I just love any excuse to wear a suit so a bunch of us went to Linz(with the christmas markets above) and rented some threads that Mr.Bond himself would be impressed with, bow tie and all. Some of the students did a choreographed dance on stage and this was followed by various things including a fire dancer. It was a good event mixing current and past students along with staff. I really enjoy this social aspect, it’s far more warm and personal here compared to college in Ireland. On Monday myself and one of the Mexicans teamed up to take on the might of Finland in an epic battle of pool, we lost all but one game where they potted the black. We won’t be hustling anyone soon. Since I had the suit for a week I decided to spend some time on photoshop setting up the picture above. Nothing else to report here so until next time, ciao.
A fairly tame week to begin with, went for a run along the river, got to the gym and had some time in class. On Halloween a big group of us dressed up and went to the college in Linz for a party which was good fun. At midnight on Thursday we had a surprise birthday party for one of our colleagues, his room mate even baked a cake.
I went to Salzburg again on Saturday with the other Irish lads. We visited the Shamrock Irish Bar to watch the Manchester United match, had our picture taken like it was the early 1900’s and went to the RB Salzburg game. I’ve never been much of a football fan, I enjoy the odd game but most of it I’ve found to be cynical and boring. Turns out I’ve been watching the wrong games. The guys over at Red Bull Salzburg have got it so right. There were just short of 7,000 fans, a quarter of what the stadium can take but you would never be able to tell from the noise. They had two guys with microphones leading the chants, along with some drums and a kid with a trumpet They had their own versions of a massive variety of songs from “Is This the Way to Amarillo” to “Dirty Old Town”. The atmosphere was great with people of all ages enjoying getting involved in the various dances and routines. When they scored everyone shouted Super Salzburg over and over then the announcer and fans would shout the same routine to each other and at one point one side of the stadium began a chant and the other side would reply and so on, it was great fun to be part of. Add to that that we won 5-0 to go top of the league and that the student tickets were €10 each made it a hell of a day out. As you can tell from the last sentence we all bought into the the club almost immediately and are going to form the RB Salzburg Ireland supporters club!
Straight to the big story: It snowed for the first time this week and unlike Ireland the whole place didn’t shut down. It was very weird, almost as if they were organised or something crazy like that. My parents visited at the weekend so I showed them around Wels and we spent some time in Salzburg too. As it turns out the city of Salzburg is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and when you get there it’s immediately obvious why. It is without doubt one of the most staggeringly beautiful places that I have ever been to. Quaint, twisty, vibrant streets with a light blanket of snow mixed with the smell of hot chocolate and dominated by an incredible background of fortress and mountains, Salzburg is astonishing. They make a damn good beer too, seriously get yourself some Stiegl if you can.
Friday was a national holiday and we all went to see one of our colleagues from Mexico play a gig in one of the bars here (photo). The stage was a bit dodgy seeing as it was basically just the top of the porch but he made the best of it and was brilliant. The rest of the week was largely uneventful with the usual combination of class and leisure time.
Finally thank you for your emails, texts etc. and as always there are more pictures at the link: Salzburg.
There was a great buzz in Austria at the start of the week after Felix Baumgartner jumped from space. Given that he’s from Salzburg and that the money behind the project is Austrian it felt like it was extra special and everyone was talking about it. My own exploits have been less than spectacular in comparison. When I threw my room mate his keys out of the window they of course landed on the roof of the lower level and I’m guessing by the reaction of the staff that this wasn’t the first time it’s happened. The college is having a ball in November which will involve some proper dancing so I decided to head along to one of the classes, sure how bad can I be? Well spectacularly so would seem to be the answer; Waltz? Nope. Cha Cha? Negative. Disco Fox? Not a hope in hell! I’ve known my whole life that I was not destined for glory in anything that involved co-ordination or rhythm but I didn’t think I was that bad!
Joined the gym this week, it’s got a proper 80’s style vibe to it even down to the Rocky movie soundtrack on the stereo. The guy that owns the place hasn’t a bit of English and I only have “ein bisschen” (a little) German but combine that with hand signals and it’s enough to get by. Also he trained with the Terminator himself back in the day, so yeah a fairly interesting character! Had a few parties as well this week. Went to the Swedes house (dodgy stairs up to it is the pic on the right) on Saturday and discovered they had a cellar, hence the picture on the left *insert Austrian cellar joke here*
(The Swedes have a blog too: http://aufwiedersehen.webblogg.se/l).
Had a couple of classes early on in the week and then a bit of a break, having a different timetable every week along with classes at 8am and sometimes until 7pm is a bit of a shock to the system.
Had our first proper classes this week, nothing too strenuous though just beginners German. Went for a swim at the local pool on Wednesday, did a bit of socialising and went to one of the other international students flats for a movie night on Friday. Snatch and Pulp Fiction were a great combination which everyone enjoyed, especially Brad Pitt as a Pikey. I was shocked that they could understand him without subtitles!
Great day today in Linz! Beautiful place, great weather and a car exhibition, what more could you want? I think I may have held up everyone else though. They were ready to leave and I was still mumbling numbers and staring in awe at the great variety of automobiles, it’s oil not blood in my veins. Dakar winning 959’s, Auto Union race and land speed record cars, early model Beetle’s, CART and CAN-AM racers, Le Mans 911’s and of course one of the infamous Porsche tractors, sure what’s not to like? Just wish my uncles could have been here, I’m sure they would have enjoyed it.
Yesterday a group of us went to Munich by train for a day out at Oktoberfest. It was one of those days where everything seemed to be against us. The train from Salzburg to Munich took way longer than it should have (very un-German!), the festival was packed, you had to queue for an age to get into the beer tents/sections, and then when we eventually did get a beer it started raining. We persevered and had the craic nonetheless! Afterwards we queued again (seeing a pattern?) for the subway to go back to the train station whereupon we had to stand for the 2hr journey back to Salzburg. It was even less pleasant than the previous train journey thanks to the poor frau getting sick in a plastic bag. To add insult to injury the trip took so long that we missed the direct train to Wels and so had to pass through it on the way to Linz where we then got a train back to Wels. Murphy’s law has nothing on our Munich trip.
The first week here was an orientation week which meant a lot of getting used to new surroundings and meeting new people, there are 50 students from 27 different countries in our international students group. Having a conversation with a Mexican, Korean, Swede and Kazakh in English, in Austria is surreal. On Thursday we had a pub crawl with all the international students and buddies around Wels. At each pub we had different challenges to complete including: designing a flag for a new country (the Glorious United Republic of Wels), writing a song for said country (a rip off of “Call Me Maybe”) and a sack race (which I won). My team claimed a glorious second place overall in the pub crawl challenge to cap off a good night of fun with new friends.
The journey here was easy enough if a little long, myself and 3 of the 4 other lads from ITT got the plane at 7am from Dublin to Vienna followed by a bus and then a train to Wels. A couple of our buddies (the college has a “buddy” system where Austrian students volunteer to help the incoming international students) collected us from the train station in Wels, brought us to our student residence, took us around the town and out to dinner, the Austrians; a great bunch of lads.
I’ll include a link for the pictures accompanying each blog post either in the post or at the end of the post, like this: Bye Dublin, Hello Austria!
Hi I’m Brian, an Engineering student from Dublin, Ireland and this is a blog of my time on Erasmus study in Wels, Austria. I’m new to blogging and am still figuring out how to best use wordpress so bear with me and I’ll be updating this regularly in no time at all!
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