1) The document summarizes Marina Perez Llorca's experience living in Cardiff, Wales as part of an Erasmus student exchange program from the University of Barcelona. 2) She describes arriving in Cardiff and getting settled with housing, banking, mobile plans, and medical registration. 3) The document outlines her project on competition and herbivory in the plant Spinacia oleracea at Cardiff School of Bioscience, local foods, activities like parks, music, festivals, and sports in Wales and Cardiff.

1. ERASMUS LIFE IN CARDIFF
Marina Pérez Llorca
Màster d’Agrobiologia Ambiental,
Universitat de Barcelona

2. Why Cardiff?
• Gran Bretanya
• Projecte en Plant
Ecology -
Competition and
herbivory in a
dioecious plant:
Spinacia oleracea

3. Arrival- Croeso i Cymru
El Prat  Bristol  Cardiff
Pis, Cathays/Roath  AGÈNCIES NO!
Tarjeta de mòbil  Companyia
GiffGaff
Compte bancari  EVO banco,
Santander
Transport  Bici
Atenció mèdica  Surgery, registre
gratis

4. My project
• Competition and herbivory in a dioecious
plant: Spinacia oleracea.
• Cardiff School of Bioscience – Organisms
and Enviroment division
• Meetings setmanals del departament
• Primer treball com a biòloga!
eDNA decay

5. Food
• Supermercats – Lidl, Tesco,
Salisbury
• Farmer’s market – verdura de
temporada i productes
artesans
• Menjar fora – pubs i
restaurants
Welsh rarebit Welshcakes Welsh cawl

6. What to do in Wales/Cardiff
LAND OF CASTLES
400 castells
Brecon
Beacons
Caerphilly castle

7. What to do in Wales/Cardiff
• Bbq – Roath/Bute
• Park run – 5K
• Language meetups
• Live music – Tots els dies
• Concerts
• International Food & Drink
Festival – Juliol
• Tafwyl Festival – Juliol

8. • Rugby
• Football
What to do in Wales/Cardiff

9. TAFWYL FESTIVAL

10. FRIENDS

11. mperezllorca@gmail.com
Diolch!