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 very special opportunity to meet the town's mayor! In honor of the Fourth of July, the mayor was kind enough to play the national anthems of the United ...
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 exciting to see first the cars with ads giving candies, hats, pens, etc. to the crowd to increase suspense while waiting for the cyclists to pass by. ...
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 used to be an old stone quarry and the internees were political prisoners from all around Europe. The site has moving memorials and reconstructions ...
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 the airport, we took a charter bus across town. Our trip was a little longer than normal as Le Tour de France had just passed through town and many of the ...
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 excitement! After an introduction to their apartments, we all had dinner together in a relaxed atmosphere. Before we went to sleep ...
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 bit of rain, but also to gorgeous mountain scenery. We took a stroll through one part of the historic downtown area and stopped in at the house where ...
We headed out early in the morning for a tram ride through the old town area to the other side of the Vltava (the Moldau) River and the Castle area. Students toured the enormous castle complex, St. Vitus Cathedral, and the center of political power in the Czech Republic. After the tour, students wandered around the medieval street behind ...
[caption id="attachment_1645" align="aligncenter" width="553"] Romane, Kimon, and Gabriela working hard in class![/caption] It’s hard to believe that tomorrow will be July, and Session 1 of Abbey Road's College Prep program will be more than halfway done! The days have flown by, and our students are working so hard, seeing a lot of Boston, ...
All is going very well here in our little Andalusian paradise. Yesterday we visited the Cadiz Cathedral, a beautiful and strange structure that sits alongside the ocean in old Cadiz. The students marveled at the bizarre design of the cathedral, which took over 100 years to build and ended up being built with a mixture of styles and ...
The students arrive in just a couple of hours! All is ready here, Cadiz staff included, and we are very excited to get this program started! Soon after arriving, the students will get to meet their Spanish families, move into their temporary home, and eat their first home-cooked Spanish meal. This afternoon, we will be holding our orientation ...