{"id":1846,"date":"2015-01-09T10:24:51","date_gmt":"2015-01-09T10:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:36:51","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T15:36:51","slug":"bournemouth-lifes-a-beach-and-so-much-more-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/01\/09\/bournemouth-lifes-a-beach-and-so-much-more-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bournemouth &#8211; Life\u2019s a beach and so much more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gemma Jewell talks Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth nightlife and where she&#8217;s most likely to blow her student loan&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When I told people that I was attending Bournemouth University, everyone said they knew Bournemouth for being the best beach in Britain. Now being here, I can definitely see why! It\u2019s a sandy beach and a beautiful place to chill out. But besides this attraction, Bournemouth has lots to offer. With a shopping centre that has all the high street brands, it gives you plenty of choice of where to shop. This for me was a big bonus. I love to shop and knowing I live on the doorstep of shops such as Topshop and River Island I was both over the moon and slightly worried for my bank account!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-794 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2013\/03\/bournemouth-square-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Bournemouth town square\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/>In terms of places to eat, Bournemouth has lots of places to choose from. After a night out, it will be hard to avoid pigging out on those take-aways. From pizzas, kebabs and subway, it is definitely difficult not to give in to temptation. If you want to go to a restaurant, Bournemouth has places such as Ask, Slug &amp; Lettuce, La Tasca, Nandos, Frankie and Benny\u2019s and many more. During Fresher\u2019s, I remember going to a pudding shop called \u2018Sprinkles\u2019 which offers waffles and ice cream\u2026 it was so good and I recommend it for anyone coming to Bournemouth!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1852 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2015\/01\/Firestation-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Firestation\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nAnother thing which I love about Bournemouth is the nightlife. There\u2019s a student night in each club every day of the week; Halo Mondays, Toast Tuesday at BarMe and Yates, Cameo and Vinyl on Wednesday, Sakura and Bonsai on Thursday and Lollipop at The Old Fire Station on Friday. If you&#8217;re not the clubbing type, there also lots of pubs and bars for a casual evening. The Old Fire Station also offers other events like comedy nights and quizzes, which can be a great laugh with a group of friends.<\/p>\n<p>Being at Bournemouth, I\u2019ve seen that it\u2019s far from a small seaside town; it offers beautiful parks, great transport links, big performance venues and there was even an ice rink and Christmas market in December. I&#8217;ve found that you definitely can\u2019t get bored in Bournemouth!<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-1847 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2015\/01\/beach-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"beach\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>By Gemma Jewell<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gemma Jewell talks Bournemouth Beach, Bournemouth nightlife and where she&#8217;s most likely to blow her student loan&#8230; When I told people that I was attending Bournemouth University, everyone said they knew Bournemouth for being the best beach in Britain. Now being here, I can definitely see why! It\u2019s a sandy beach and a beautiful place&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2015\/01\/09\/bournemouth-lifes-a-beach-and-so-much-more-2\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about Bournemouth &#8211; Life\u2019s a beach and so much more<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1405,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[336,1638],"tags":[877,130,306,254,304,305,69,62],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs-archive","category-undergraduate","tag-bournemouth","tag-bournemouth-university","tag-club-nights-in-bournemouth","tag-gemma-jewell","tag-nightlife-in-bournemouth","tag-student-nights-in-bournemouth","tag-students","tag-tourism"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1405"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1859,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions\/1859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}