What are the costs of travel/lodging/food or does that depend on the situation?
Room and board is included (see above). However, if you want to do lots of travelling (on weekends and holidays), your expenses will add up quickly. What a lot of trainees do is buy a special train pass (called Eurorail or something like that), which can only be purchased in North America(!) (its target market is North American young adults travelling in Europe), which allows you a certain number of days of travel within a few months. They are a few different plans available. So if you’re going on a long trip, to Italy or something, you might need 2 travel days to get there. On your travel days you can take pretty much any train or combination of trains you want (except a few express trains). If you’re going a longer distance, it can save you a lot of money. Another way to save money is to visit the other trainees at their placements, since you usually get a few meals and a place to stay, too. When I was there I did use up some savings that I already had; I think about $800 CDN (~==$60
