{"id":9419,"date":"2019-01-22T12:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T11:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=9419"},"modified":"2020-10-28T15:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-28T14:26:50","slug":"from-london-to-bournemouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2019\/01\/22\/from-london-to-bournemouth\/","title":{"rendered":"From London to Bournemouth"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9420\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2019\/01\/New-Forest.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9420\" class=\"wp-image-9420 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2019\/01\/New-Forest-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2019\/01\/New-Forest-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2019\/01\/New-Forest-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2019\/01\/New-Forest.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9420\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The New Forest<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Bournemouth is a fantastic area for a student to live. There is a young yet calm vibe to the town, which I think helps new students to feel more comfortable meeting new people and living away from home. Whenever somebody asks me what my favourite thing is about Bournemouth, I struggle to answer\u00a0because there are so many things that I love about living here. Bournemouth offers a range of amazing and fun things to do all year round such as nights out guaranteed to make memories at various bars and clubs such as The Old Fire Station, Cameo, Halo and the O2 Academy, which regularly has big names\u00a0performing \u2013 such as Chase and Status who were here just last month.\u00a0There is also ample opportunity to escape the city\u00a0and visit one of Dorset\u2019s other treasures, such as\u00a0the Jurassic Coast, The New Forest or Brownsea\u00a0Island, many of which the university\u2019s student\u00a0union, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.subu.org.uk\/\">SUBU<\/a> organise excursions to, in order to help our students explore the surrounding area\u00a0and appreciate what an amazing places the south\u00a0coast has to offer.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_9421\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2019\/01\/Firestation.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9421\" class=\"wp-image-9421 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/files\/2019\/01\/Firestation-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2019\/01\/Firestation-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2019\/01\/Firestation-768x512.png 768w, https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/files\/2019\/01\/Firestation.png 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Old Fire Station<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With all of this right on your doorstep, Bournemouth is guaranteed to have something\u00a0for you. I am so happy with my decision to study in\u00a0Bournemouth and have become so attached to the\u00a0town that I am unsure I want to go back home!When i do want to nip home, it&#8217;s only a 2 hour journey on the train, which makes it super simple. I\u00a0have made some incredible memories here and I\u2019m\u00a0sure if you choose BU, you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bournemouth is a fantastic area for a student to live. There is a young yet calm vibe to the town, which I think helps new students to feel more comfortable meeting new people and living away from home. Whenever somebody asks me what my favourite thing is about Bournemouth, I struggle to answer\u00a0because there are&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2019\/01\/22\/from-london-to-bournemouth\/\">Read more &raquo;<span class=\"sr-only\"> about From London to Bournemouth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2787,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1646,12,704,1638],"tags":[175,586,205,592],"class_list":["post-9419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-local-area","category-student-blogs","category-student-life","category-undergraduate","tag-activities-in-bournemouth","tag-bu-students","tag-living","tag-student-life"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419","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\/2787"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9640,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions\/9640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}