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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!

Out of Nice

This weekend we ventured outside of Nice, visiting Cannes on Saturday and Antibes on Sunday. Our day trips enabled us to experience a fundamental part of French culture: the trains.  Trains act ...

by Student, Serena C. , Nice, France

St. Laurent-du-Var!

It’s been a week since the group arrived in St. Laurent-du-Var! While we arrived only last Monday, our time has already been packed with lots of activities. The first day, we landed in the Nice ...

by Student, Natalie B. , Saint Laurent-du-Var, France

Trip to San Remo and Cannes

This weekend’s trips were extremely fun. On Saturday we took our own coach bus with the students from St. Laurent to San Remo, Italy. While we were there we enjoyed a nice three-course ...

by Student, Nicole E. , New Jersey

Adventures in Nice!

On Thursday we had, of course, our regular morning classes. After lunch, we headed towards Nice! We were allowed many different options while in Nice. Sports, pottery, visiting a candy store, and ...

by Student, Sydney A. , Georgia

San Remo and St Paul du Vence

Two weeks have already flown by! These past few days have been filled with many languages- not only French and English but also Italian! Arthur, the head of Abbey Road, came for a visit on ...

by Student, Eliza S. , North Carolina

Trip to Naples and Pompeii

We have arrived in Italy! While very different from Athens, Rome has been exquisite so far. The buildings are my favorite part so far; the architecture is beautiful. Since arriving, we have had a ...

by Student, Alexandra S. , Kansas

Ciao

We arrived in Rome four days ago and have been super busy! We kicked off our time in Italy with a visit to Pompeii, the ancient roman city that was buried under the explosion of a nearby volcano ...

by Student, Cora E. , Colorado

Bastille Day!

Yesterday was a normal start to any other day, wake up, breakfast, walk to our meeting place, and classes. After lunch we went to Villefranche. Here we split up into two groups; one went ...

by Student, Sydney A. , Georgia

La fête National

Bonjour! Yesterday was La fête National or the Independence Day for France. In America, people refer to it as Bastille Day, which is because it was the storming of the Bastille. In class, we ...

by Student, Nicole E. , New Jersey

Snorkeling in Nice

I woke up Tuesday morning filled with excitement for the day to come- we were going snorkeling! I have never had the opportunity to do this before, so of course I was extremely eager to ...

by Student, Eliza S. , North Carolina

Relaxing day in Nice

Today was a somewhat relaxing day in the town of Nice. It all started off with our typical morning French class where we were studying vocabulary words and introducing ourselves with new French ...

by Student, Sophie S. , Pennsylvania

Fantastic weekend leading into our second week!

On Saturday, we visited the Picasso museum in Antibes. Beautiful views of the ocean outside accompanied with interesting thought-provoking art pieces inside. After lunch, we made our way to the ...

by Student, Sydney A. , Georgia