On Sunday, a few of us decided to go up to Giverny to see Monet’s Gardens and house. I’ve always wanted to go through hearing friends and family describe how beautiful it was and I finally got to do it. The gardens were beautiful with every type of flower you could imagine. Even more so…
This past weekend I was able to go to a couple places, the first being Chateau Chenonceau located along the Loire Valley in France. It was a beautiful old chateau built in the 16th century by King Henry II of France. While it was beautiful, it was also smaller than what I would expect for…
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A couple weekends ago I got to go to Luxembourg and was able to visit the Catacombs there. I thought it was really interesting because the vision in my head of what Catacombs looked like was vastly different from what I saw. There were no bones and if dead bodies were stored down there, they…
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Over the weekend I got to do many things that weren’t necessarily exciting, but were nice activities that were at a much slower pace than what usually happens during the week. On Thursday, the day before Bastille Day, I was able to go on a picnic and watch fireworks. Even though it wasn’t actually on…
Earlier this week, one of our class excursions was to the area of Paris known as Bercy. It quickly became one of my favorite excursions I’ve done through this class mainly due to the fact that it looked different from the majority of the rest of Paris. It was a lot newer in terms of…
Over the weekend I was able to visit the country of Luxembourg. While Paris has been amazing so far, it was exciting to go and visit another part of Europe. It was very interesting to me how, even though France and Luxembourg are so close, they are so vastly different. While in Luxembourg, I got…
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By: Emma Galvin Hello! This is my first official post from Paris. I’ve been here since Saturday and it’s been an amazing experience. So far on this trip I’ve toured Musee de Cluny, the Latin Quarter, Ile de la Cite (where Notre Dame is) and Ile St Louis, but my favorite place I’ve gone to…
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