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Money, mentor, money

2014/05/14by Daniel Sparling Leave a comment

We had still not received the rest of our money as we went into the middle of February, resulting in a quiet weekend, even turning down an offer to go […]

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EVS work

Weekly Photo Challenge: On the Move

2014/05/10by Daniel Sparling 8 Comments

These a a few pics that I have taken whilst on the move around Istria… When moving around it is always good to keep track of how far you have […]

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Photo challenges, Travels

Weekly Photo Challenge: Letters

2014/04/26by Daniel Sparling 1 Comment

To Letters! And all that you represent. You are a set of symbols, just a series of lines, dashes, squiggles and dots on a page. Arranged in a certain way […]

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Photo challenges

Struggles and Starts

2014/04/25by Daniel Sparling 1 Comment

At the beginning of January, when Monika, Alessio and I returned, we were given just two-fifths of our food allowance and pocket money, with the promise of getting the rest […]

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EVS work

Express punishments

2014/04/21by Daniel Sparling Leave a comment

We kept our heads down in the week after Osijek, we had to win back the ‘trust’ of our superiors. Despite their claims to the contrary, punishment seemed to be the […]

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EVS work

Weekly Photo Challenge: On Top

2014/04/18by Daniel Sparling 9 Comments

This is a photo I took in Zagreb, on Tkalčića, and is in response to this week’s photo challenge.

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Party-time in Osijek

2014/04/17by Daniel Sparling Leave a comment

We left the rain in Buje behind at 5am. On our chartered bus with a few students from the Italian high school (participants of Youth for EU) and Nina there was lots […]

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EVS work, Travels

Weekly Photo Challenge: Monument

2014/04/16by Daniel Sparling Leave a comment

This week’s photo challenge is monument. I was a little bit stuck for something to post, until flying back from London to Trieste I passed over these natural monuments. It […]

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Photo challenges

Back to work

2014/04/14by Daniel Sparling Leave a comment

Alessio and Monika returned over the weekend so we were back to work on Monday. But the first week was slow. I worked on my personal projects, doing things to get […]

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EVS work

Budapest, and back to Buje

2014/04/09by Daniel Sparling 2 Comments

I spent a couple of days with Klaudia in Budapest to start the New Year. It was not the first time I had been to Budapest, but I had one new […]

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