Day 6

Checked out of hotel at 10 .30
Headed to Oparinor shopping centre to spend our last remaining euros and experience French shopping.
Checked in at 1. 30 pm for our return flight to Dublin.
All arrived back safely but very tired at St Pauls at 7pm

On behalf of myself and the other staff, it was a pleasure to have such a great bunch of  St Paul’s students with us.   

Mrs M McMahon

See below for pictures from the trip:

Day 5

Magical experience for everyone in Disneyland.
We had 12 hours to enjoy all it has to offer!!!!

Day 4

Up early, beautiful  breakfast in hotel.
Rendezvous vous at 10 15am with Tour guide, Joe Walsh at Place de la Concorde.
Entertaining tour with lots of info on Paris, is history and architecture.
Lunch on Avenue de Wagram , next to Avenue de Mac Mahon!!!!!
We then descended the Champs Élysées en masse and met up with our bus driver, Christian who escorted us to La Tour Eiffel for our 2.30pm reservation.

Everyone enjoyed this, some venturing right to the top for the breathtaking views.
En route to Flunch for dinner, we all sang”Champs Élysées”by Jean Dessinbas we made our way back up to Montmartre.
After dinner we had some free time to visit le Sacre Coeur and Place du Tertre.
More spending, presents and even more portraits were acquired.
All back safely to hotel
Lights out and dreams of Disneyland tomorrow.

Update: Tuesday 30 October, 1500 GMT

Arrived Sunday night in Hotel Campanile in Roissy near Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Dinner in Flunch beforehand. Ryan Doran was extremely adventurous in his choice. Frites frites and more frites!

Hotel is tres chic et moderne!

All slept well and ready for a full day in Paris on Monday! More updates later.

Update: Monday 29 October, 1300 GMT

Very early start in Chamonix on Sunday morning.

We then headed to Taize, and experienced really bad weather conditions en route.

Thanks to Christian, our driver, we got through the biting wind and heavy snow.

We arrived at Taize for Mass, and had a presentation on Taize from Brother Jean Luc of the community and then visited the shop where more presents were bought

We had a simple lunch in Taize and then a long trip up the road to Paris 😉

Update: Sunday 28 October, 1500 GMT

Sorry for delay in posting a new update – we’ve all been very busy.

The group all slept sound in Hotel le Prieure in Chamonix.

We had our Breakfast at 0900 and the food was glorious.

The hotel staff commented on how well our group had behaved!

We all headed down town to see the local market, weather though was disappointing, but everyone enjoyed browsing and spending,

The afternoon spent going to the top of the mountain by train to see La mer de glace, the glacier. Despite poor visibility we managed a massive snowball fight!

We toured the ice museum and then held our breath on the treacherous descent down – Mrs Nugent cant wait to go on the train again!

A few hours rest before dinner when some of the boys took in the jaccuzi! Photos to follow!

Another beautiful regional meal in the hotel eas followed by our quiz and the quizmaster extraordinaire Mr McMahon!

There was a suggestion that Mrs O’Hare cheated – but she maintains it is a scurrilous lie!

The winning team was Gerry’s Angles! Sorry Angels!

We all headed to bed after 2300 – glad of the extra hour!

We have had an early start on Sunday at 7am en route to Taize!

We’ll keep the blog updated later with more news.

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Update: Saturday 27 October, 1000 GMT

Hi everyone! We had a very early start from St Paul’s at 3am! Some very sleepy heads. Our flight was on time from Dublin, and we were picked up by coach at Geneva Airport.

We had a delicious lunch in Geneva and had some fun spending Swiss Francs. Ryan Doran paid a visit to a very exclusive Louis Vuitton shop – but only for a look!

Our next stop was the United Nations tour, where we met our great guide – lots of job opportunities here! At last everyone has realised why they should be studying French!

Then we headed to CERN – which was a short visit but very interesting. we saw the world’s first internet server, without it we wouldn’t be able to do this!

We also saw the Hadron Collider. Aaron Hughes wanted to stay longer but dinner was calling in the Alps.

We arrived in Chamonix at the lovely Hotel Prieure at 7pm. It’s a gorgeous chalet style hotel. Everyone settled in very quickly and all slept sound especially in Room 312!

More news to follow later and photos.

Update: Friday 26 October, 0300 BST

We’ll be updating this blog with news from the students and staff who are visiting France and Switzerland as part of their European trip. Check back for updates soon, and leave your comments and messages below.

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