Madrid to Manchester. No, this is not the prediction of the opponents in next year's final of the Champions League, but the cities where Tamara and Artem, students of our university, spent the last winter semester. Do you want to know what foreign mobility through Erasmus + looks like during a pandemic? Is it worth considering even in such extraordinary circumstances? What to count on? Get advice from those who have experienced it firsthand.

In the heart of Spain

Tamara Horá?ková, who studies English language and literature at the Faculty of Education at Charles University, tried Erasmus before the pandemic - in the last year of her bachelor's degree, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM). She fell in love with the Spanish capital, so she decided to spend the past winter semester there as a sophomore. "Now I was ready to honestly walk through the city, museums, galleries and cultural monuments. The only thing I was worried about was a total curfew, "he recalls.

Measures more lenient than in our country

At the time she applied, she had no idea how the situation would turn out. In fact, she was still waiting for the mobility to be canceled at the last minute. In the middle of the summer, however, an acceptance letter came from the University of Madrid. More Tamar was no need: "I found the accommodation, for sure pay more for a room with a balcony, he bought a ticket and early October she traveled." Daily welcome foreign students that have indeed missed, Faculty of it but the presentation and all the information sent by email. It was via e-mail that the university communicated all restrictions related to the pandemic to the students well in advance.

Immediately after his arrival, Tamara was a little frightened that in Spain the veils were again mandatory outside: “Every day we expected further tightening of measures, so we bought board games with roommates from Austria and Italy and prepared to close in the apartment. In Madrid, however, more or less the same measures applied: we wore drapes everywhere, we could sit in limited numbers in companies, and the curfew did not apply, I think, until midnight. So in the end it was relatively mild (already compared to Slovakia, where companies were closing at that time and tested en masse) and the days could be fully enjoyed. The traditional Erasmus parties did not take place, but I didn't even miss it. "

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