Visits to Europe as the sponsor of a student tour or without student responsibilities.
On the morning of July 17th, we departed York for London via Windsor Castle. Our tour manager, Stan, had told us that we would probably be out late that in London so that we could see as much as possible in the day and a half we would be in the city. Many people took…
Once again, we were departing early in the morning, this time to travel from Edinburgh to York on July 16th. At this point in the trip, having been on the go for a week straight, travelers look forward to these long bus trips as a chance to catch up on sleep. We tried to get…
On July 15th, we got up in Edinburgh ready to tour the city. We started the morning with a bus tour and would later tour the Edinburgh castle. After that, we would have free time to see what we wanted. On the bus tour we drove up to the heights overlooking the city, where we…
We woke up at our hotel in Windermere with some of our clothes just a bit damp from the previous night’s rain. Fortunately, we had a trouser press to dry clothes. Then we went down for the breakfast provided by the hotel. This hotel also allowed us to order a hot breakfast as part of…
On July 13th, we had to leave at the crack of dawn to catch the ferry, travel across the Irish Sea to Wales, tour the countryside, to end up in the Lake District in England. It was early enough that morning that there were some odd scenes in the ferry terminal. It’s possible that this…
On our second day in Dublin, we got to sleep long enough to shake off some of the jet lag. Another thing that helped us deal with the jet lag was the high pressure showers, which provided the complete exfoliating experience of a prison delousing. After breakfast, we hopped on the bus (or “coach”) for…
On July 10, we were ready to head to Dublin, the first stop on a trip that would take us to Wales, through the Lake District, to Edinburgh, York, and, finally, London. But before we reached Dublin… After a quick and late lunch, we got on the flight to Dublin without issue. In fact, the…
On the morning of July fourth, we started with a driving tour of Munich. One of the first things we saw was the building where the infamous Munich Agreement was signed, in which Neville Chamberlain “appeased” Hitler by allowing him to take a piece of Czechslovakia. Chamberlain believed he had maintained “Peace in our time,”…
Sunday morning, it was time to leave our hotel in Engelberg to head to southern Germany. There was a brief scramble as we were leaving as Daniel accidentally packed his room key for the hotel. The key is an actual key that turns a real lock, and not just a plastic key card, so the…
Early on July 1st we went to the train station to take the high speed train to Switzerland for the next, less urban phase of the trip. There we were to travel through the Alps, go to the top of Mount Pilatus, tour Engelberg and Lucerne, and eat at an Alpine Lodge. Traveling at just…
