Category: Trips to Europe
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Touring Delphi and Our First Night in Athens
On July 2, we toured the museum and archeological site at Delphi. Although the Delphi museum had salvaged many of the remarkable statues and carvings from ancient Delphi, they would not allow “posing” with the statues for pictures. Since we had been posing our way across Southern Europe, this prohibition (which was posted nowhere) was…
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A Trip to the Island of Capri and Pompeii
On Sunday, we departed from Rome to be herded onto a giant ferry to the island of Capri, off the west coast of Italy across from Naples. Once we landed on the island, we took a cable car up to the town of Capri, which was a few hundred feet above the beach. Capri is…
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Marathon through the Colosseum and Vatican and Overcoming Problems with Maps
Friday was the busiest day of the tour, with visits to the Colosseum, Forum, Sistine Chapel, and St. Peter's Basilica. In spite of lingering sleep deprivation, and, in the case of one traveler, illness, the kids were troopers. The main problem of the day was the long-windedness of the local tour guide, who felt compelled…
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How We Ended Up in a Roman Shopping Mall and Escaped with Our Sanity
Like last year, Laura and I are taking Cosby students to Europe for the beginning of the summer. This time, the plan was to focus on Italy and Greece, and on June 25th, we successfully navigated to the airport, checked in 13 bags, and got through security in spite of One student’s attempt to smuggle…
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Parisian Museums and Boat Tours
By Sunday I had slept enough that my brain could once again perform basic functions like creating short-term memories, so I was ready to do something new after our morning training with EF, the company that brought me over. One of the other travelers had mentioned going to the Musee D’Orsay, one of the art…
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After two days of travel through four airports, I finally made it to Paris.
After traveling from Richmond, to JFK in NewYork, to a Best Western, to a Starbucks for coffee and a delicious sandwich, back to JFK, and then to Boston, I finally ended up in Paris. I was there for a training tour run by the company that organized my student trip to Europe this summer, and…
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Traveling to Paris; and traveling to Paris; and STILL traveling to Paris
On the way to the Paris, I had a bit of a “Trains, Planes, and Automobiles” type day. Everyone experiences bad weather and delays when traveling by air, so I won’t bother you with the details. I will say, though, that the delays were strategically spaced in such a way as to make rescheduling difficult…
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Europe Trip – Roman monuments and health care
By the time we toured Rome, most of the group was exhausted. Making the crankiness worse, we had to wake up even earlier than usual to beat the rush hour traffic in Rome. At this point, the fast pace of the trip had really worn most travelers down. Stop one was the Colosseum. Since we…
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Europe Trip – Leaving the big cities for northern Italy
After the night train experience, the group arrived in Florence a bit cranky from the lack of sleep on the train and the last night in Paris. After breakfast we began a walking tour of the city, which is much smaller than the two we had seen already, with an urban population of about 200,000.…