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Whilst in Singapore I travelled to the barracks my grandfather was stationed in for his national service over 70 years ago, Changi Barracks. It was a great feeling to walk on the grounds he spent many days training on the other side of the world in 1945-47. In this photo my grandfather and myself ar...

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Surfing at Phillip Island while on exchange at RMIT University (Melbourne, Australia)

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On a trip to Japan for New Year we stopped by Shibuya crossing and got in everbody's way. Japan was our last stop on a 4 week trip between semesters which also took us to Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.

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On the last day of my stay in Lyngby, the buddy group I was assigned to in the first week all met up again for one last group dinner. This photo preceded the emotional goodbyes.

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This is a lovely little Italian Man in Milan. Pigeons are everywhere all over the city, usually tourists pose with them in their hands in front of the city's Duomo. It is a rare site to see a local holding a pigeon. He was quite crazy, I suppose.

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I met some amazing people on my exchange from all corners of the globe and from all different backgrounds. Though in the end I managed to root out the other Scot abroad with me. For the full year he became my partner in crime in all we experienced and saw. From nights out in mexico to climbing mount...

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Making mates from all over the world was by far the greatest part about exchange! Another clemson win along with friends from Spain, Germany, France, Belgium, Australia and America

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Mount Cook was the favourite trip i went on during my stay in New Zealand. We camped amongst the gorgeous glaciers surroundin the tallest mountain in new zealand and did some day walks around it providing us with a perfect view of it. It seemed only fair to give it a perfect view of us too ......

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I mean the goat in the middle. That's my Mexican former roommate on the right. Taken on the Picos de Europa near Oviedo. Gijon/Oviedo Exchange, 2014/15

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Meeting fellow exchange students for the first time at a BBQ in the National Park

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Myself, my flat mates, my friends, their friends - all friends. We had a wonderful group in Valencia and this picture sums up some of the great times we had. It also has four nationalities in it.

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Tailgating - to host or attend a social gathering at which an informal meal is served from the back of a parked vehicle, typically in the car park of a sports stadium. Basically this is a big party on campus BEFORE going to the football game. Made a lot of friends wearing our kilts to tailgate parti...

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Met some fantastic people from all over the world whilst on exchange. Ended up travelling with these four after the term was finished. This is us on top of Mount Royal in Montreal.

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Abel Tasman, one of New Zealand's Great 9 Walks, was a 60km hike which we conquered in just 3 days. A true bonding experience, brought friends together from a diverse range of nationalities: with Americans, Canadians, Kiwis, and Scots taking part.

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In the beginning the whole experience is daunting but forget that, in the end you feel like family - friends for life, not just the semester.

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Myself and the amazing friends I met took many weekend trips here, to the 'blue lagoon' on the island of 'Comino'. Comino is a tiny sister island of Malta and hosts this incredible experience of the most insane part of sea I have ever seen. Look how blue it is!! We would go here to swim, party and h...

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When led by a common destination, exploring travelling possibilities through Couchsurfing can lead to finding friends in strangers.

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Halloween in the States was a memorable experience as for Americans Halloween is a massive part of their culture . It lasts over 2 weeks and was definitely one of the best parts of my study abroad experience!

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The best thing about Erasmus is definitely the people you meet. You form close relationships with people from all corners of the world and learn that culture, religion or race may be what can help define us but underneath we are much more similar than we think. This is a group photo of friends fro...

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This picture was taken at Milan's Expo Gate during Milan Fashion Week featuring an up and coming designers collection.

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When winter arrives in Canada it arrives with a vengeance. But, even with up to a metre of snow on the sidewalk and temperatures dropping below -20 degrees C, life carries on! This was a photo taken on my morning walk to campus. Throughout the winter we didn't have one snow day!...

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As defined by Visit Denmark: Hygge is as Danish as pork roast and it goes far in illuminating the Danish soul. In essence, hygge means creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. The warm glow of candlelight is hygge. Friends and family – that’s hygge too. There...

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This photo was taken on campus at Queen's University, Canada, to mark the end of a fantastic year, which I was lucky enough to share with the most amazing group of exchange buddies!

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On a tiny beach at the bottom of a cliff in Phuket, Thailand. We had it all to ourselves. We ended up having to run back up the cliff to the car when the thunder and lightning storm started.

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I first met Poh #1, Poh #2 , Kenneth , Mervin and Ken (Barbies boyfriend) when they came on exchange to the University of Strathclyde in 2013/14. All studying Engineering we got to know each other well in Glasgow over the year, giving them the chance to persuade me to come and study with them in Sin...

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For the danish festival Fastelavn, which is similar to Haloween, I donned my kilt and showed some Scottish culture to my erasmus friends. A perfect combination of my scottish roots and the most danish object i can imagine, my bike.

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In my Erasmus year I met so many new people and had so many fun evenings. The best was my birthday, where my new friends made a huge surprise party. the emotions experienced in that evening were unbelievable. In the picture we are in the typical mountain house in the evening of my birthday party. ...

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This was one of the first meet ups our university held for Erasmus students. Hundreds of us met at the Retiro, an incredibly stunning park in the centre of Madrid. We sat under the shadows of the trees, drank sangria and introduced ourselves to new people in the exact same situation as we found ours...

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This picture is of a group of us swimming in the beautiful clear waters of the Callanques national park where we lived. Endless days were spent here enjoying the surroundings and each other's company, I now have friends from nearly every continent who really made my Erasmus experience so amazing!!...

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This was the first trip with our ESN team. We went to the castle Karlstejn and then the brave ones could go on a hiking trip immediately after. This is the picture of the brave young people who returned to our student accommodation as friends !

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A wee day trip with my exchange 'family'.

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A photo of everyone from my corridor in halls standing in front of the fountain in Place des Terraux, Lyon.

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An evening on the lake skating, or at least trying too! Mid March with the days getting longer and exams still far away.

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A man and his sparkler enjoy themselves.

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Film camera - double exposure. Dusk turning into night. Two different shots of places at different time merged together into one. People/Places

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It takes only one Colombian, one Canadian, one Scot and two Americans to capture this photo of us trying to enjoy Norway, as we battle against snow, rain and icy winds in the Norweigen fjords.

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Elena is the cousin of a friend of mine who studies in Strathclyde. She lives and studies in the state of Pennsylvania, America, but happened to be spending some months in Italy as an Erasmus student as well. We met through a phone call, during which we organised a trip for her to come visit me in V...

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The guy on the left is Alan, he is Mexican. The guy on the right is Iain, he is Scottish. We lived together, we cycled together, we drank together, we cooked together, we ate together and we partied together. We explored, studied, and washed our bikes together, and I'm still not sick of them. ...

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