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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!

Provence Happened!

Here I am at last! After changing two planes and an exhausting seven hours stay in the Beauvais Airport in Paris, I finally made it to my destination, Aix-en-Provence! I haven’t had the time ...

Session 2, Welcome to Cadiz!

On Thursday, July 4th, the Abbey Road students arrived in Cadiz! Chris Bond, our Program Director, welcomed them, introduced them to their host parents, and then the students were off to their new ...

The Visit to a Concentration Camp

After a long six-hour bus ride yesterday, the mere two-hour ride to the concentration camp memorial felt like nothing… We’ve all read the unimaginable stories about the Holocaust, but ...

St-Laurent-du-Var Students Meet the Mayor!

Abbey Road Programs‘ students arrived in St-Laurent-du-Var just yesterday! Today, we got started by touring the city with a local guide. But the main event occurred when the students got the ...

Deuxième Juor in Aix!

For our second day in Aix, we had the great opportunity to see the Tour de France! The famous bike race runs 3000km around France, and this year the tour celebrates its 100th year! It was very ...

Second Day in Salzburg

On our second day in Salzburg, we took a 2-hour bus ride to an important, if intense, a site in Austrian history: the Mauthausen Memorial, dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust. The location ...

More College Tours and Fenway Park to See the Red Sox!

Hi! The last three days have gone by so fast! On Monday we didn’t do anything special, but as usual we had our classes. We visited Emerson College yesterday, and even though we are living ...

C'est Parti à Nice!

We’ve finally all arrived at La Résidence Ségurane, our home away from home for the summer. We are just north of the Vieux Port, in a really cool part of Nice. After we got everyone from ...

Aix-en-Provence Has Arrived!

The students have arrived in Aix-en-Provence! After a long trip through airports, flight delays, and wandering suitcases, we welcomed all our students to the Aix program with a lot of ...

Modern Civ Meets Salzburg

We are off again! Today we left for Salzburg at 8 in the morning, making our way through the beautiful countryside of the Czech Republic and Austria. We arrived in the late afternoon to a little ...

Harvard, the MIT Museum, and Salem to Round Out Week One of College Prep!

We’re halfway through first session; I can’t believe how fast it went by! It’s crazy! On Saturday morning, we had our College Admissions class and then left for Harvard. I was ...

Expectations Surpassed!!!

Today we saw the most amazing view of Prague from the castle! The following photos sum up how great our experiences in Prague have been: Cemetery for the Czech Jews that died in the Holocaust. ...