Tilburg University (KUB)

While in the Netherlands, use the train. I recommend you visit several palvces in the Netherlands, because it is worth it: Amsterdam, Utrecht, Maastricht, Roterdam, The Hague (Den Haag), you name it! Train is efficient and it takes you everywhere. There are special tickets that makes travelling not so expensive. If you want to go a little bit further, Belgium and Germany are right there, and Paris is not so far from Tilburg either.

It provided a chance to practice English during all day and through a long continuous period.

Lunch at the cantina (mensa) and dinner at home with itms bought on the supermarket. There are three supermaket chains clearly directed to different social economic customers. I recommend the Heida (do not recall very well if it is exactly this name) chain. If you want to travel in the netehrlands the railways are just amazing. They have special tickets that allow you to save a lot of money.

The University had several options in what concerns acomodation: university campus and room rented in the city. I was very fortunate to have the change to share an apartment with other 3 ducth students, from different areas: economics, arts and tourism. The house was confortable and the people were excelent. The rooms at the university campus were regular, but had the disadvantage of being more noisy and a litle bit less clean than the place where I was. I had the chance to see other students' rented rooms arranged by the University, and they all were regular or good.

We usually met at the Puk en Muk, where the Erasmus student network organized our meetings at least once a week. All the cafes and night spots are concentrated in this same area. Good plaves to go is Cafe Bolle, Cafe Kandinsky.