For Erev Shabbat, we enjoyed services at the Portuguese synagogue in Amsterdam. Some of us held alternative services at the park. Regardless of choice, everyone had a reflective final Shabbat. We all regrouped at Chabad for dinner and met people from around the world. On Saturday, we walked around the city and enjoyed lunch at [...]
Western Europe Discovery #3
The past few days we have been on the move! On Thursday morning, we woke up for our last French breakfast at our hotel. We will certainly miss those croissants and crepes! We loaded the bus and began making our way to Bruges, Belgium. In Bruges, we attended the Friet Museum, which is a museum [...]
We’ve been pretty busy here. On Monday we arrived in Caen and disembarked from our overnight ferry. We began our day right away with visiting the Normandy Omaha beach and memorial for D-Day In World War II. We then visited the U.S. WWII cemetery and had a very sombering and humbling visit. We finished the [...]
What an incredible couple of days! We can’t believe that it was only on Thursday we last wrote. On Friday morning we woke and began our day at Shakespeare’s Globe Theater. We had an amazing guide who taught us not only the history of this influential stage, but what it must have been like to [...]
Hello from London! Our Italy participants have now joined forces with 8 new participants. Yesterday we picked up the new crew from the airport and went straight to Windsor Castle where the Queen sometimes spends her weekends. We took photos with the guards and tried extremely hard to get them to laugh but they were [...]