University of Bristol

There is an accomodation-meeting in August before the term, where you can choose other new students to live with and find a house. The adress of my accomodation I found by hints of the student, who went to Bristol the year before. I did not know the persons, with whom I lived together then, so it was luck that it worked very well.

If you want to fly to Bristol, you should take a flight to Heathrow and than go by coach-bus. Its cheaper and less! complicated. You should only know at what station you should leave the coach-bus, but this problem you also have, if you fly to Bristol and than have to get a bus to town. A notebook is very helpful. Working at the computers at the library is a little bit annoying. For email perfect because cheap, but for whole essays not a good choice.

Travel any way you can, anywhere and everywhere. You typically have a lot of vacation time. Grab a friend and a backpack and just explore your host country and other countries. You can do it fairly cheaply and it's a great experience!

Trying to get a good accomodation is the ky factor to get started. To achieve this is important to arrive early, before the people start arriving. There are good young hostals where you can get accomodation to start looking for.

The housing is quite good, but some international students may not be able to fined a place at University's accommodation if they apply late. Living in Bristol is expensive compared to other cities in the UK.