Universidade de Coimbra

Don't expect to find a big city, when you go to Coimbra. It's small, but cosy! It's easy to meet other foreign students. You'll learn to appreciate the academic traditions, although they might seem odd in the beginning. Visit Lisbon, it's a beautiful city and easy to reach by bus (or train, but bus is cheaper). Go to Figueira da Foz, by train, and enjoy a walk along the beach in February! And just enjoy your stay, it's worth it!

Have real fun at Coimbra! Learned very well the language, speaked fluently, meet over 5 hundred othe erasmus and a very good opportunity to travel in Portugal/Spain

Traveling through the country is cheap and the weather is good. People are kind,sweet and really calm.

Here it is a short list of best places in Coimbra with a short description: 1)TROPICAL: placed in "praça da republica"; is a cafè where lots of students meet to get a coffee or a beer in almost every hour of the day till night. 2)0 Zé: placed in "rua da matematica", is a small place where peolpe meets usually from 22:00 to 02:00 to get some drinks before starting the nightlife. 3)VIA LATINA: placed near "praça da republica",is a disco with good dj's and goog vibrations.On friday electro music with some drum'n bass. 4)QUEIMA DAS FITAS: an event starting on the firt tuesday of may and absolutely to not miss.It's a sort of students festival during one week.The best day is the thursday when take place "o cortejo",a march of trukcs full of students (like carnival) that offer beers and many other alcoolics for free.The city get full of people,children and old men too.

The accomodation was old and far away from the university ( 20 minutes walk ), not to mention far away from the center ( 30 mintues walk ). However, everything was clean and worked ( washing machine etc. ). Besides, I liked living in a house with other Portuguese girls. Because of this I was forced to speak Portuguese.