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First Impressions: Athens
Hello from Athens! We just arrived and it seems to be a very unique city. There is lots of graffiti, but the areas we are driving through...

Mike McHugh
May 29, 20122 min read
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Relaxing on Poros
Hello from Greece! Our ferry from Bari to Greece was great. It was more like a cruise ship with staterooms, a restaurant, and even a...

Mike McHugh
May 27, 20122 min read
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Sorrento & Pompeii
Ciao Tutti! As I write this, I am driving through the rolling hills of Italy, each more breathtaking than the last, and listening to...

Mike McHugh
May 25, 20122 min read
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Mission Accomplished, Romesickness Averted
Ciao Tutti, Today was my last day in Roma – a very sad day, I know. I slept in to catch up on sleep as I felt like I may be coming down...

Mike McHugh
May 23, 20122 min read
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Home Sweet Rome
Ciao Tutti! Hello from my favorite city in the whole world and my home away from home! I feel like I never left Rome. I guess that should...

Mike McHugh
May 22, 20123 min read
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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,...

Mike McHugh
May 19, 20121 min read
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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...

Mike McHugh
May 18, 20122 min read
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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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