Hi everybody!
I'm Cristina, and
this is the Avenida de Gaudí in the Eixample quarter in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Right at the end of this street is where I have been living during my Erasmus. I have chosen this pic to represent me beacuse the 9 months I spent in Barcelona have been the best of my life. Once I saw a guidebook on Catalonia in which they where analysing the different kind of poeple living in Barcelona and to be an erasmus student was considered as a social role...kind of strange! Living in this city has been a great experience, but not only because I was away from Italy, without my parents, in one of the best European city for having fun.. well, that's important too! But there is something more, something deeper, something that only who as been an erasmus can understand. I have learned a lot in BCN, I studied, worked and had fun. I met a lot of persons with which I'm still in contact, of course :-). I discovered a magic city that goes beyond the same old tourist places, there are some corners and little streets that leave me brethless, there are museums and artistic buldings, there is the crowded beach that becomes suddenly sparkling with its parties and bonfires in summer, there is the colourful market of La Boqueria full of exotic products and the Rambla with its street artists catching the turists' attention.
So...that's me!!

Now, here there are two web-sites I often visit:
http://www.hostelworld.com/index.php?affiliate=hostelsworld.com
first of all, I tell you that I love traveling but I'm often hard up :-) and so, this is a very usefull site where you can find cheap solutions to sleep while travelling. You can choose the country and the city where you want to go to see the various hostels and B&B!
http://www.ferroviedellostato.it/
this is another web site that, against my will, I often have to use! The point is that I commute between Treviso, that is where I live, and Padova...That's a hard life!