On Sunday departed Rome early in the morning to begin our 3 hour journey to Pompeii. When we arrived at the ruins we were met by Antonio, our tour guide for the city. We got to walk around the ancient city, see the ruins, the streets, shops, and houses of the time long ago. It [...]
Italy Discovery #3
Friday morning we headed to the coliseum. It was awesome! Since becoming certified gladiators yesterday, we channeled that inner spirit and walked around in awe taking lots of pictures. We learned about its history and its purpose from outside the walls and then made our way in to walk around and get up close and [...]
Thursday morning we left Florence and headed to the leaning tower of Pisa! Despite the sun and the heat, everyone enjoyed themselves and took in the sites. The group climbed to the top of the tower to get some photos and then had some free time around the area to get more pictures of themselves [...]
Wednesday morning we woke up in our hotel just outside of Florence and headed into the city to a pasta making factory. We learned about a family’s pasta making business, and what American pasta vs Italian pasta looks like. It was very interesting. They even gave us each a bag of their pasta to take [...]
Monday morning we had a nice traditional buffet breakfast at our hotel and then departed via bus to Lake Bled. It was a beautiful natural lake made by a glacier. The water was very blue and clean and extremely peaceful. We took a small boat that held the entire group. A quick 10 minute ride [...]
Sunday morning we said our goodbyes to our quaint little hotel in Venice and to our favorite waitress that would make us custom coffees. We left Venice via train where we met our bus again on the main land and headed towards Slovenia! We arrived in the afternoon to go white water rafting down the [...]
Friday we all woke up and had a typical Venetian breakfast at our hotel – pastries and coffee. They even had orange juice that wasn’t in fact orange – it was purple! The teens were skeptical at first, but after they tried it they loved it. Then we walked out of our hotel to a [...]
We had a great start to the morning with a late wake-up for teens from Western Europe Discovery before traveling to the airport to pick up a new counselor and teens arriving from New York. We were able to walk around the beautiful and luxurious city of Milan, seeing the famous Duomo, castle, as well [...]