Università Degli Studi Di Urbino

Caffe degli Archi in Piazza della Repubblica shows the rugby and Premier League football. Mackia and Glamour are the 2 clubs - Mackia is much better than Glamour though. The Bosom pub is awesome. Karaoke on Tuesday's in Portico is great fun. El Piquero is pretty cool too. The best thing is that it's all so cheap. €2.50 for 660ml bottle of Peroni in Caffe degli Archi. It's a small town but the night spots are really cool.

The Halls are fairly basic but they're cleaned every day and there's a cheap meal available at lunch and dinner. There are 3 wings, each 6 to 9 floors deep, so if you're down on the 8th or 9th floor, getting back up to the top can be a treck. If you're with Erasmus people it's good for socialising. If you're with Italians (like I was) it's not so great.

When you go out, go to Caffe degli Archi and have some bottles of wine to start you off. It's cheaper, gets you drunker and it's so cool sitting in the piazza with your mates just drinking, chatting and watching the world. Obviously drinks in clubs are far more expensive.

Urbino is a beautiful, renaissance town, built on a steep hill, difficult to get to, but so worth it. The University stops the town from becoming a massive museum, and the foreign students especially. It's so much fun being a student here. You go out as much as you like, the uni lets you off with anything and you get to spend time among incredible, historic surroundings, having the time of your life.

I learned plenty of new slang words and some dialect as well. The accent in Urbino is very clear so understanding was never a problem.