FAngela Steen | Age: 26 | City: Brussels (Belgium).

I speak: English and also French

My contributions

• 12062008

  Dustin to Lisbon: Eurovision turkeys and European treaties The city centre is silent, except for the early morning rubbish trucks trundling down the streets. The inhabitants are stirring slowly in rows of identical modern apartments. The dawn breeze rustles the row of blue and yellow-starred flags…

• 16042008

  Åland - å land neither Finnish nor Swedish It could almost be paradise. Small waves lap against glistening sailing boats. As the summer evening closes in, trendy bars fill with young Scandinavian tourists in cool marine trends. Their laughter fills the balmy air. It rolls over the…

• 17032008

  St. Patrick's Day: drowning the shamrock in Dublin Saint-Patrick, exportable tradition (Photo: Bitzcelt/ Flickr) There are shamrocks everywhere. Drawn haphazardly onto sweaty faces. Carved into the frothy cream of dozens of pints of Guinness. Strewn across the noisy pub walls and dangling…

• 19022008

  Paris-Japan-Dublin with Erasmus Breathing a sigh of relief, I looked around the sunlit classroom, filled with clapping French, Germans, Spaniards, Italians and Brits. My final presentation of my Erasmus exchange year was over. The coming weeks would bring final exams and…

• 08022008

  Finland: Europe's newest nuclear plant You can make out the rows of vines in the distance. Flanked by a dense forest, the deep green plants protrude into a clear blue sky. There is a soft breeze. It could almost be France. But the vines are shadowed by two imposing concrete…

• 16012008

  Constitution tension ... in a Finnish sauna The Lisbon treaty established a legally new European Union when it was signed by twenty-seven member states on 13 December 2007. 2008 will be a tense year, as it awaits ratification from all the member states for it to be able to be in place…