Saint Severin is a rather famous church in the Parisian Latin Quarter. It’s one of the oldest churches on the Left Bank and is in continual use. We stopped here during our walking tour and before we visited Notre Dame. It is exceptionally beautiful and is worth the stop. Honestly, I preferred Saint Severin to…
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Paris walking tour
After Cite Internationale, we headed out on a walking tour of Paris. We started in the arrondissement near Notre Dame, hopped on the Paris metro to check out the Palais Garnier (the opera house featured in The Phantom of the Opera), and ended with a rage-filled group protesting our tour guide. We had tickets for…
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Cite Internationale in Paris
As I mentioned in my Oxford post, our trip to Europe was to learn more about international higher education. Our next institution visit was to Cite Internationale in Paris, a residential campus for foreign students living and studying in Paris. The concept is wholly unique and really cool. Essentially, a bunch of different countries sponsor…
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The Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe was built to honor the great military victories won by Napoleon Bonaparte. It was completed after his death and now sits in the middle of a very busy roundabout in Paris. If you take the Metro, you can access the Arc from an underground tunnel that takes you to the entrance….
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Paris at night
Our first night in Paris, our tour guide dropped the ball big time and didn’t make our group of 40 dinner plans. We wound up at a pizzeria right behind our hotel. The food was surprisingly good and soothed our hanger. From there, a group of us headed back into Paris to visit the Arc…
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The golden hour at Westminster
After our day in Oxford, we arrived back in London at dinner time. I mentioned before that we wanted to make the most of our time, so we headed back out. My sorority grand-little lives in London, and I made plans to meet her for drinks after she finished work. We had a bit of time…