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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!

The Accursed Bean

Today Chinese class got pretty heated, and it was all thanks to beans. We were arguing what use of the bean is more felicitous—the sweet bean pastes of Chinese cuisine or the savory bean dishes ...

by Student, George H.

Cuisine & Conversation - Florence Session 1

By Simone Onnis, Cuisine & Conversation Instructor, Abbey Road Florence Staff My name is Simone Onnis and although I am Italian by birth, I now live in New York City.  I would like to begin ...

A Cuisine Competition

Ciao! On Wednesday evening, my football team and I arrived back to the apartment sweating, exhausted, and ecstatic to be the victors of the so anticipated soccer match. After a morning of lessons, ...

Cooking at St. Jean Cap Ferrat

Abbey Road‘s program in St-Laurent-du-Var has provided us again with a beautiful excursion. We spent the morning as we normally do, eating breakfast with our host families and then heading ...

Merci, France

I have finally enjoyed the pleasure of going to French beaches – and they are even better than I thought! The water is perfectly cool and clear; the big rocks on the shore double as a hot ...