Bye Florence! Bye England!

Piazza Duomo, Florence
(Painted for me by my Neapolitan friend
who worked in the market near my flat)

Most of the people reading this will know me, but in case you've just stumbled on this by chance, I'm Rachael, a third year student of Spanish and Italian at the University of Leeds. 

This year I've had the chance to spend an amazing four months studying British Institute of Florence improving the Italian side of my brain, and I'm now off to spend my year abroad at the University of Barcelona. 

Why Barcelona, you ask? Well, apart from the fact it's an amazing city with almost everything (beaches and mountains and all that...), I wanted to use my year abroad to learn Catalan and Spanish at the same time.. so where better to do so than the Catalan capital!