Useful Websites
- Travel Reports and Warnings
A guide for Canadians traveling worldwide. Includes tips on travel, currency and climate. Also provides up-to-date travel advisories and warnings.
- Country Insights
From Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada. This website has descriptions and insights on all aspects of culture and communication in any country in the world, including everything from displays of emotion to dress norms, to which types of humour people enjoy.
- Verge Magazine
Verge is an online travel magazine produced right here in Peterborough. They provide incite from other students and travelers about budget traveling, staying healthy, coping with culture shock...the list goes on. It is a great resource for those considering a study abroad to get opinions from international students on their experience, as well as tips that may help those preparing to study abroad.
- Wikitravel
An extensive user-edited travel guide including popular and off-the-beaten-path travel destinations, travel alerts, upcoming international events and festivals, cultural information and phrasebooks.
- Time Zone Converter
Find out what time it is, anywhere in the world.
- Rail Europe
Find rail passes, discounts, accommodations and train schedules for travelling around Europe.
- Currency Converter
See how much your CAD$ are worth abroad.
- Study Abroad Directory
A directory to aid students seeking opportunities to study abroad.
- languagecourse.net
A third party service not affiliated with Trent, offering access to and comparisons of approximately 4000 language courses world-wide.