European Tour 1997
On Feb.28,
1997 Robert Griffin and I, both teachers at Grand
Manan High School, left Canada on a Canadian Air
Boeing767 for Europe with 23 students in tow.
As everyone had
predicted, it was the trip of a lifetime. We had
planned the trip for nearly two years and spent many
months deciding what company we would book with and
where exactly we would travel in Europe. We finally
decided to go with EF and to take a 15 day tour called
"Europe at Leisure".
We began to raise
moneyfor the trip in October 1995and over the course
of the next 17 months, several students raised nearly
$1000 each. Most of them raised their spending money with
pizza sales at school every Friday,Yard and food
sales, lobster and scallop raffles,a variety show,
booths at the Rotary Festival and the Christmas
market. When it finally came time to leave on the trip
we had twenty-nine people-- 23 students, two parents,
an adult student and her husband and two supervisors.
The students ranged in age from fifteen to eighteen,
the majority being in Grade 12.
Group at the Saint John Airport
We landed at Heathrow
Airport in London on the morning of March 1, 1997.
Our itinerary was as
follows:
Feb. 28- fly from Saint John to Halifax to Toronto to
London.
March 1,2,3- London with one day in Oxford and Stratford.
March 4,5,6- Paris
March 7,8- Lucerne
March 9,10- Florence
March 11,12,13-Assissi and Rome
March 14- fly from Rome to Toronto
March 15- fly to Montreal to Saint John
To view some of the pictures of this wonderful tour, click on the links below.
