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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...
Mike McHugh
May 18, 20121 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 18, 20122 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 16, 20123 min read
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London Called. I Answered.
Cheers! I am now in London! Â After a brief delay, my flight arrived into London at about 4:00 PM. I took the Heathrow Express which had...
Mike McHugh
May 14, 20121 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 14, 20122 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 12, 20123 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 11, 20122 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 10, 20123 min read
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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,...
Mike McHugh
May 9, 20125 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
Jul 2, 20113 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 19, 20113 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 18, 20113 min read
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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)...
Mike McHugh
May 17, 20112 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 14, 20115 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 13, 20113 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 7, 20112 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 7, 20114 min read
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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...
Mike McHugh
May 1, 20114 min read
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Reverse Culture Shock?
Today was a pretty ordinary day in Rome (which is not ordinary at all). My architecture class met at Il Vittoriano which is also known...
Mike McHugh
Apr 26, 20112 min read
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Easter in Rome
My Dad and brother left the hotel early Easter Sunday morning, but I slept in until around 11:00 AM. I was worn out! At around 11:45...
Mike McHugh
Apr 25, 20112 min read
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