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Welcome to the Summer Program and Teen Travel Blog !
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences.
SYLVIA PLATH, THE BELL JAR

It is our wish to provide you, our valued readers, with engaging and interesting information about the spectacular world around us, and, hopefully, the words you find here will also inspire you to get out, to learn, to live, and above all else, to travel!

Daily Updates for High School Spanish Summer Programs

The following is an entry from our Directors’ Blog about our High School Spanish Summer Programs in Cadiz, Spain, written by the Program Director, Chris “Pancho” Bond.  While ...

by Staff, Chris Bond , Cádiz Program Director

Spanish and French Pre-Summer Tutoring

Abbey Road is excited to announce that in order to help our high school students make the best of their study abroad experience and improve their French and Spanish Language fluency, we will ...

My experience in Cadiz with Abbey Road

Looking back on all that happened within four short weeks in what is sure to be the most magical city on Earth, I can say wholeheartedly that it was the best experience of my life. The only ...

by Student, Student Blogger

Closure

This past Saturday our high school’s fall play “The Servant of Two Masters” wrapped production—after over two months of hard work we culminated in three shows. Like all shows I’ve ever ...

by Student, George H.

My Summer Program in Cádiz with Abbey Road

Hello, my name is Andy Vargas, and I went to Cadiz, Andalucia, España this past summer with Abbey Road Programs. Although I am fluent in the Spanish language, I am grateful to have seen where my ...

by Student, Alexis R. , Tennessee

Adios Cadiz

by Sarah H-K. Even though it seems like yesterday that I arrived in Cádiz, it is now time to go. We finished up our stay here with a fun weekend. Saturday we went to Jerez and walked around the ...

Last Days in Cadiz

by Claire D. I’m very sad to say that this weekend was our last in Cadiz. Therefore, we tried to pack as much fun as we could into the last couple of days. Saturday, we took the train to ...

Final School Week in Cadiz

by Claire D. This final full week here in Cadiz went by extremely quickly and was filled with fun activities. On Monday, instead of having normal classes, our entire group took a trip to the flea ...

End of Classes in Cadiz

by Sarah H-K. We are now all done with classes and approaching the end of our stay here in Cádiz. Since Tuesday, we have learned a lot more in class and also continued exploring the city. On ...

Day Trip to Girona

During our first weekend in Barcelona we took a day trip to the city of Girona, about 60 miles northeast of Barcelona. The city was founded in 79 B.C.E and remains one of the major cities in the ...

Toledo, Spain

After getting off of the high speed train that brought us from Madrid, we walked up a large hill approaching the ancient city of Toledo. Passing over the fortified bridge and through cavernous ...

Arrival in Spain

The Madrid-Barcelona program got off to a running start as soon as our plane touched down in the early hours of July 7. After dropping our bags at the hotel in Madrid we strolled over to La Plaza ...