Matthew is a student of French and European Studies at Nottingham Trent University. He started his year abroad blog yearinfranceblog.wordpress.com in October 2015 as he prepared to go on his year abroad in August 2016. This book contains the majority of the posts he wrote from the beginning in 2015 to the end of his year abroad in 2017. For Matthew's year abroad, he studied as an Erasmus student at the Universit de Franche-Comt in Besan on, France.