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A day in Oxford
When I arrived I started off by taking the sightseeing bus tour, which also provided me with a 24hr continuous bus pass so I could get on and off as needed. A few pictures from the tour… The Castle...
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Trecking through London
Today I spent the day in London. When I first got off the train I walked over and wondered my way through Hyde park on my way to one of the museums. While passing through I found…. The Diana,...
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Back in Prague for a little more exploring
After arriving at the hostel I quickly made connections with two of my roommates and someone I sort of knew from back home. We started out with some drinks and visiting at the hostel restaurant and...
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Quick trip to Berlin: pt 1
On my first day I took in a free walking tour. It gave me some history and let me see lots of cool spots, some that I wanted to come back to. First we started in front of the Hotel Adlon. A very...
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Quick trip to Berlin: pt 2
Today I went with a walking tour to visit Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp. It was very interesting to see in real life something many North Americans only ever read and hear about in school. It is a...
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Quick trip to Berlin: pt 3
In the evening, after visiting the concentration camp, Predro and Carol (From Brazil) and I walked back towards my hostel by way of the East Side Gallery. The East Side Gallery is an old chunk of the...
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A brief visit to Spain to finish things off
After a stressful 36hrs of travel, a series of late trains and an over night in Strasbourg I finally made it to Madrid at almost midnight Saturday. Jeremy, my friend Melissa’s husband, met me at the...
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Weekend trip to Monaco
Man I love my life! Haha how many people can say they took a weekend trip to Monaco just because they felt like it?! But I’m jumping ahead… Wednesday after Andreas ‘cooked’ dinner for the family I...
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American in France!
This week my friend Kaye from Miami, who is doing a semester in London, came to visit for a few days! Wednesday night we went bowling then out for a glass with some friends, before calling it an early...
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Halloween in France
To switch things up a bit I actually dressed up as something scary this year. Partly because in France Halloween dress up is still about the horror factor, rather then the fun/silly/sexy factor in...
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Toulon, St. Raphaël and other outings with friends
On Saturday Roberta, Chiara and I bused to Toulon for the day to wonder around and do some shopping. Chocolate factory store: sells everything from chocolates to Carmel spread to olive oil...
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Almost Christmas time in Aix-en-Provence & some skating with friends
On Saturday Nicole, Ruth, Emily, and I drove to Aix-en-Provence to check out the Christmas Market and do some shopping in the ‘big city stores’. Of course Christmas time in...
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Tour de France Again
Back in 2009 I went on a Tour de France trip with my junior high. The same teacher has been doing the trip for 25 years now. This year when she did her France trip I decided to meet up with her group...
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Merveilleuse Mecredis (marvelous Wednesdays) #1
My friend Caro and I discovered that we both have Wednesday’s off, a day that most other girls have to work; so we decided to make Wednesday’s our exploring days. Today the plan was to leave on the...
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Merveilleuse Mecredis #2 : Monaco
Got an early start off to Monaco today to celebrate Caro’s birthday!! Being really atteactive Look Caro it’s Monte Carlo! It’s 5 o’clock somewhere right?! (Actually we check it was 5 o’clock in...
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Merveilleuse Mecredis #3 : Cannes International Film Festival &Île Ste....
Waiting for out train to Cannes! The festival building… Seeing as we are much too poor to afford tickets to the festival, we opted to do a little exploring… We visited the market along the way to grab...
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Day trip with the girls!
Haydee, Caro, Danaé, and I managed to get a day off midweek, so we rented a car and took a day trip! First we made a stop in Aix-en-Provence for lunch and to wander around a bit. Next stop was a visit...
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Mis-adventures to Dublin
So…Friday morning Nona drove me to Nice and dropped me at the airport. I then had lunch and waited for my afternoon flight at 3:05 to be called. Finally went to my gate, that sat to wait out the line...
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Munich & Oktoberfest
After arriving in Munich we got changed and went straight over to Oktoberfest. (Convienently our hostel was only a block and a half away) Oktoberfest is held on ‘fair grounds’ that are used almost...
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Andrea goes abroad & Amsterdam
This summer I convinced Andrea to leave Canada for the first time and come aupair in France with me for the summer! Bye – bye Canada!! Gros Bisous Getting a good start to the summer with a Rose before...
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