Just before leaving for my very first trip to Paris back in 1992, my French teacher told me to go and see the legendary bookstore “Shakespeare and Company”. That’s what I did, and since then I’ve had a bit of an obsession with the history of this legendary English bookstore and all of those who […]
Fast forward 14 days…… …and we’re back in Paris after taking a trip around France! When we first got back to Paris, we were arriving by coach from Normandy. We arrived at our hotel in mid-afternoon, ready to hit the town. Everyone was especially excited because the date was June 21. You know what that […]
After dinner we headed up to Montmartre http://www.aparisguide.com/montmartre/index.html, which is quite close by foot. We had watched Le Fabuleux Destin d’Amélie Poulin http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211915/ in class before our departure, so they thought it was fun to see Le Café des Deux Moulins, the café where Amélie works in the movie. Just after having a look (from the outside) […]
After lunch, we started a walking tour of Paris. Since we were already in the 2ème, our guide offered to have us stop by his house right around the corner. He has the obvious good fortune of owning his own house, right in the very center of Paris. From the street, you open the oversized, […]
Upon our arrival at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, we didn’t waste any time at all. We went directly into the city, dropped off our luggage at the hotel, and went into town on the Métro. http://www.ratp.fr/plan-interactif/ I had already given my students a lesson on how the Paris Métro works, so even if […]
My experience leading student tours to Europe One month prior to departure with my students (about twenty of them this year), I’m beginning to think about everything that goes into putting together a student trip to Europe. The 2012 trip will be the fourteenth tour that I’ve organized, and the twelfth I’ve led. Thinking of […]
We’re on the real countdown now… In exactly one week 11 of my students and I will leave on our 23 day European Capitals trip. First stop, London. I’m officially starting my version of the sun dance today, and will continue it everyday until we leave the UK. Had lunch with my college age son today […]
