Universidad de Salamanca (USAL)

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You will love it. It will be a complete and unforgetible experience

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Salamanca is great place; just be prepared for challenges with integration in the town and with Spaniards as they tend to be closed.

Food, accommodation and alcohol is cheaper than in my country, and there are e.g. no entry fees to bars. I used my finnish mobile phone, so I don't know about the tarrifs. It is quite expensive to open an account, which you can do for free in my home country. It is difficult to evaluate the traveling costs, I never use the public transportation in my country as I have a car. But of course, when you go abroad you travel a lot and thus spend a lot!

That there will be such a long and hard winter (until the middle of May it was very cold)

The courses and teachers are very, very good. It is worth coming.

Food was less expensive in Spain than in Ireland. Mobile phones are more expensive to use in Spain. However, I used skpye, to phone landlines in UK at local rate, or also, there is the possibility to phone another skype contact and talk for unlimited time, free. The accommodation I stayed in was approximately equivilant of what I pay in Ireland. However, this seems to have been more expensive than the normal accommodaion in Spain, due to location and such factors. Spanish nightlife was cheaper in general. I spent more on Travel in Spain, as I wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to get to know the country. Also, I very much enjoyed travelling with the mountaineering group as it was a great means of socialising with Spaniards.

I'd have done a little more boning up on my Spanish. But it wasn't major, I dealt.

It is the warmest, most welcoming school I've ever attended. Plus, the campus is amazing. Where else can you learn about Spanish literature in a 1200 building?