International Tourism Management graduate, Amy Harrington, pens her experiences of living and working in Hamburg, Germany.

I grew up in a small English town with an inadequate selection of leisure activities and a sameness which has plagued most English towns since the 1950s. Every year for a birthday treat my parents would take me into London, where I was confounded by the hustle, bustle and multitude of opportunities that lay before me. Since that first trip, it had always been a dream of mine to move to a city but, not just any – it had to be a foreign city. So when my university offered me the opportunity to live and work in Germany’s second city for 6 months, I jumped at the chance.

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