Nice & the French Riviera, FranceJune 28-29, 2008Sorry we are so far behind on our blogs. School is keeping us SO busy! Our weekend on the French Riviera was a lot of fun! We took an overnight train from Metz to Nice and had a couchette (our first couchette experience!). Luckily, we were FINALLY able to get reservations on these trains after being repeatedly told they were sold out up until about 2 weeks before. (In Munich, they told us that groups of Ko...

Saturday May 31, 2008 We got into Reims around 9:30 pm after going back through Metz, and it was dark and raining when we arrived.We set out on our trek to find our hotel, a little outside the city centre, by foot. The "20 minute walk" probably took an hour (even without Danny leading), and finally we arrived at our hotel-soaked. Luckily we decided to drink a little on the train so that made the walk a little more fun. When we got back we went to a ...

Wednesday 5-21 We've gotten behind on our blogs now that school has caught up to us, but last Wednesday we didn't have class and instead everyone got to go on a FIELD TRIP! We visited the Lorraine American Cemetery and Fort Hackenberg on the Maginot line. We first visited the cemetery and learned from the "cemetery keeper", an older black man from NY who served in the military and now works for the American Battle Monuments Commission, all ab...

Danny writing: Tonight all of the GTL students were taken to Metz (20 min bus ride) for a tour of the city and a free pizza dinner. Besides seeing the train station, this was the first time we really got a chance to check it out. We were dropped off in a square by the city's main cathedral and our guide (a student who's been over here for 2 years working on her masters degree) showed us some of the highlights of the city, as well as some pubs to check ...