The geography field trip to Nerja by a group of students from Royal Holloway University of London is an annual event thanks to an agreement with the Town Hall. This year some 90 students from the university have been in the town to study different aspects of the area.
Two of them were Hannah Buckland (19) and Chris Bishop (18) who, along with their fellow students, have been carrying out a field research project as part of the first year of their undergraduate Geography degree.
The morphology of the rivers, especially since last September’s floods, the tectonic structure of the land, the subsoil system, the Nerja cave and agriculture have all been analysed by the students, as well as aspects of human geography, including the integration of foreign residents in the area.
Foreign integration
After conducting a series of interviews, Hannah Buckland explained that they had identified two groups of foreign residents: “There are the ones who are interested in Spanish culture and try to integrate, and then the majority, who are not interested in the culture and only come here for the weather, and so they make no effort to integrate socially”, remarked the young student.
During their stay the students were given a talk by local councillors about Nerja and its surroundings.
