"Never Was So Much Owed By So Many To So Few"

From the banks of the romantic river Seine to the bustling streets of London, our students have seen it all in just 48 short hours.  Yesterday was our busiest day yet. Arriving at the hotel past midnight we couldn't blog yesterday lest we pass out from exhaustion. Allow me to catch you up:

A bus tour took us around the streets of Paris and a couple of wonderful guides taught us all about the history of the city from Louis XIV to World War II to present day.  Free time in the afternoon allowed many of our students to venture into the Louvre and peruse the halls of the historic palace viewing billions of dollars of art from all over the world.  The rest of our time was left to explore the city and experience the extraordinary culture of France.  We finished our day with a visit to the iconic Tour Eiffel.  The steel structure, though originally only build to last twenty years, has been standing for 129 years and thankfully it did not collapse beneath us.  We saw the incredibly lit skyline of Paris from an equally well lit Eiffel Tower and it was a beautiful end to our time in Paris.

This morning, after a meager four or five hours of sleep, our students groggily filed out of the hotel at six in the morning to take a two hour Eurostar trip to London, England.  We dropped our luggage into a waiting van and immediately hopped on the tube to take us to Westminster.  Although we couldn't go into Westminster Abbey itself, we were able to take a ride on the London Eye and get an incredible view of the city.  Walking back towards Westminster to go to the Churchill Museum, we passed Big Ben for the second time and it was almost a surreal experience to see something so iconic in real life.  The Cabinet War Rooms were bunkers used by Winston Churchill during the second world war which have been preserved in their original state and are open to the public.  We finished off our day, nice and early, with a dinner of fish and chips at the Barrowboy and Banker Pub by the London Bridge.  And finally, we retired to our rooms for a much needed good nights sleep.  Tomorrow, with heavy hearts we embark upon our final day in London and in Europe and we hope that it is riddled with fond memories and fantastic photographs.

"Never was so much owed by so many to so few."

- Winston Churchill