{"id":20865,"date":"2025-02-27T09:56:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T15:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/?p=20865"},"modified":"2025-03-03T10:01:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T16:01:31","slug":"spring-break-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/2025\/02\/27\/spring-break-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring break in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Spring break in Italy isn\u2019t like it is in the United States. Instead of one week in March, we got two weeks in February. I used this time to travel across Europe with my friends by train. We visited Zurich, Switzerland; Frankfurt, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was an incredible experience, and two things really stood out to me. First, public transportation is surprisingly easy to navigate. You pick it up quickly in each city, and after just a few days, you start traveling like a local. And second, the people in Europe are incredibly multilingual. It\u2019s not like in America, where you can get by only speaking English. Here, some people can switch effortlessly between Dutch, German, Italian, Spanish, English and so many other languages. This multilingual culture made traveling as an American smooth and stress-free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2qPS2WP\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54362892431_31dc464c7d_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3245\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The highest tower in Frankfurt, Germany. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-photo is-provider-flickr wp-block-embed-flickr\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/flic.kr\/p\/2qPS2WJ\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54362892426_fe4abf5d2f_z.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_3559\" width=\"480\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The famous Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about this blogger\u2019s study abroad program: <a href=\"https:\/\/mystudyabroad.missouri.edu\/_portal\/tds-program-brochure?programid=11334\">Florence University of the Arts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spring break in Italy isn\u2019t like it is in the United States. Instead of one week in March, we got two weeks in February. I used this time to travel across Europe with my friends by train. We visited Zurich, Switzerland; Frankfurt, Germany; Brussels, Belgium; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was an incredible experience, and two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[185],"class_list":["post-20865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-italy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20868,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20865\/revisions\/20868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/international.missouri.edu\/studyabroad\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}