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Mike McHugh
May 19, 20121 min read
Versailles Gardens
Bonjour! Today, I went to the Gardens at the Palace of Versailles. It took about an hour and forty minutes to get there from our hotel,...
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Mike McHugh
May 18, 20122 min read
Free Day in Paris
Bonjour! Yesterday, I slept in until 11:30 AM and met up with a few friends at 12:45 PM at the Louvre. Since I spent a half of a day...
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Mike McHugh
May 18, 20121 min read
Paris with the Group
Bonjour! We arrived in Paris at 1:00 PM and hopped right on a bus for a coach tour. We drove all around Paris and stopped for lunch at...
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Mike McHugh
May 18, 20122 min read
London in ONE Day
Yesterday was quite a busy day. We essentially did all of London in a day! We started at 8:30 AM with a pretty extensive breakfast buffet...
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Mike McHugh
May 15, 20123 min read
London By Myself & Meeting the Group
Yesterday, I spent the whole day walking around London by myself. The weather was not the best as it kept raining on and off (at some...
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Mike McHugh
May 14, 20121 min read
London Called. I Answered.
Cheers! I am now in London! After a brief delay, my flight arrived into London at about 4:00 PM. I took the Heathrow Express which had...
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Mike McHugh
May 13, 20122 min read
Family
Yesterday, I took a tour of the Irish countryside and met a bunch of family that I don’t remember meeting before. First, we went to...
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Mike McHugh
May 11, 20123 min read
Dublin in a Day
Today, I took on Dublin by myself. Without the language barrier I have in most other countries, I felt like my bus tour yesterday gave me...
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Mike McHugh
May 10, 20122 min read
The Old Country: Dublin, Ireland
Last night, I made it to Dublin and my family which I don’t remember meeting, Seamus and his wife, Caroline, picked me up to the airport...
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Mike McHugh
May 10, 20123 min read
London’s Calling….just for 6 hours
Hi Everyone! I’m writing this as I look out of the window onto a rainy London tarmac. Yes, that means that I made it through the first...
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Mike McHugh
May 9, 20125 min read
Reflections: College
College. The best four years of your life. Four years ago, I thought that was just saying was, well, just a saying. Four years later,...
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Mike McHugh
Jul 1, 20113 min read
Reflections: Study Abroad
It is hard to believe that I have been stateside for over a month already. Time has flown and, contrary to what I have been told, I have...
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Mike McHugh
May 19, 20113 min read
Last Day in Rome!
Today was my last full day in Rome. I have been planning on making the most out of this day for the past few weeks. I woke up early in...
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Mike McHugh
May 18, 20113 min read
IES Farewell Dinner
I had a great day yesterday. I had no exams, but exams continued until 2:15 PM on Thursday. I took advantage of my free time by going...
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Mike McHugh
May 17, 20112 min read
Finito!
I’m official done with my finals and am a college senior! Kind of scary, right? I had three finals this week (hence the lack of posts)...
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Mike McHugh
May 14, 20115 min read
Tuscany
I took my final trip of the semester on Saturday to Tuscany. I woke up at 4:30 AM (after getting an only an hour of sleep) to catch a...
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Mike McHugh
May 13, 20113 min read
Final Week of Classes
I spent pretty much all of last weekend writing an eight page policy paper for my Italy and the European Union class. Our topic was the...
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Mike McHugh
May 7, 20112 min read
AS Roma vs. AC Milan
I just got back from one of the best games I’ve been to in my life. The fans of Roma are even more enthusiastic about their team than...
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Mike McHugh
May 6, 20114 min read
Soccer, Apertivo, Movies, More Movies, Homework, and More Soccer!
This week has been a pretty active week for me. I arrived back in Rome at around 10:00 PM on Sunday night from Croatia and waited for...
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Mike McHugh
Apr 30, 20114 min read
White Water Rafting & More Fun in Croatia
I had a great time this weekend in Croatia and the Dalmatian Coast and met a lot of cool people. We arrived into Split at around 7:30 AM...
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