Fall Break abroad is as glamorous at it sounds. Being located in Rome, Italy\ncomes with the perk of cheap travel prices for basically anywhere in the EU.\nThe downside is that when it came to planning out fall break was there were so\nmany options! I was traveling with my friend, Nancy, so we made a list of\nplaces we wanted to go and worked out which places we could do in a 9 day\nperiod. We finally decided that we would go to Paris, Geneva, and Nice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
We started our fall break with a plane ride from Rome to Paris. We stayed in\nan Air BNB in Bagnolet, a town on the outskirts of Paris and it was not quite\nwhat we were expecting. It was in a good neighborhood and seemed very safe. The\nonly downside was that there were 5 of us staying I the Air BNB and it only had\na single queen bed, a child\u2019s bed, and a couch that the owner said pulled out\ninto a bed but didn\u2019t. I was very frustrated when I realized that 2 of us would\nhave to sleep on the couch but realizing there wasn\u2019t anything we could do to\nfix it, we decided to focus on the brighter side and explore the city. Paris\nwas not quite what I expected. Yes, it was just a dirty as people had told me.\nHowever, the people were very accommodating, something I had not expected as my\nassumption was that the French did not think highly of Americans. The monuments\nthough, were amazing! The Eiffel Tower, Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Louvre\nMuseum were just as great as I imagined them to be. I especially liked the area\nsurrounding the Notre-Dame. There is a small book shop called Shakespeare and\nCo. which housed an amazing collection of books, I could have spent hours in it.\nThe art district was also a nice area to walk around and get a nice brunch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Next, Nancy and I hoped on a train to Geneva. We arrived to perfect weather\nand the nicest hostel I had ever seen! It was very clean, and they had upgraded\nour room for no charge! In Geneva, Nancy and I hike a mountain, Saleve. It was\na beautiful hike that took us back across the border into France. From the top\nof the mountain we could see the Jura mountains on one side and Mont Blac on\nthe other. Nancy and I could have spent hours looking at the view, and nearly\ndid! The only thing that made us begin our decent was that it started to rain.\nWhen we got back to the city, we went to the United Nations Office at Geneva\nfor a tour. The tour was pretty amazing, we were given a little history lesson that\nhelp us contextualize the spaces we entered. One of the building that form the\nUN Office actually used to be where meetings of the League of Nations were held.\nThe league was disbanded after it failed to stop another world war, but the building\nwas then given to the UN.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, Nancy and I rounded out our week in Nice, France. Nice is where Nancy\nand I truly decided to relax. We would wake up, walk through the flower market\nwhich happened every morning. Then we\u2019d walk along the beach up to Castle Hill.\nCastle Hill had tremendous views of the city and harbor. In the afternoon, we\nwould pick a place on the beach and eat our lunch right there on the rocks,\nright next to the water. As the sun began to set, we\u2019d make sure to have a view\nover the water and watch the sky change color until it was black. Then we made\nour way into old town for dinner, each night trying a different restaurant. One\ndiscovery that Nancy and I both made was a tasty dessert called profiteroles. They\nwere made with puff pastry and inside was ice-cream and drizzled over it all\nwas a super-rich chocolate syrup! We probably won\u2019t be able to find them\nanywhere outside of France, but that just gives us an excuse to go back!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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