Autumn in Lyon

I woke up at 2:30 a.m. on Friday for my 3:00 a.m. Uber. I tossed my pajamas in my suitcase and triple checked that I hadn't forgotten...

About thirty minutes by train from Lyon, there's a medieval city called Pérouges. The walled town is perched on top of a hill that's...

An Essay from Travel Writing If Rome is a city of history, then Florence is equally a city of art. You need only Google the city’s name...

Pau is a city in southwestern France, near the Pyrénées mountains and the Basque coast. It's roughly the size of Iowa City and a little...

We Ubered to the train station in Rome because the buses were so unreliable and got on a train to Venice at 7:35 a.m. We arrived in...

As I'm sure you're aware, Pope Francis died on Easter Monday, the 21st of April. 2025 is also a Jubilee Year, or Holy Year, which happens...

Allison and I started the day at the Uffizi Galleries, the major art museum in Florence and Italy in general. I was able to see some of...

Continuing from the previous post about Milan, the next morning, we had an 8:00 a.m. train to Monterosso al Mare, Cinque Terre. Cinque...

Around 5 p.m. on Friday, my group of fellow Italy spring breakers and I boarded the first train to Milan of the season. Things went well...

This weekend, USAC took a trip to Avignon, one of the major cities in the southern region of Provence. We met at Gare Part Dieu at 6:50...

On Saturday, two friends and I went to Marseille! I booked the first train to the coastal city and the last train back so we could have...

Beaujolais is one of the major wine regions of France, located just north of Lyon. When my family visited, we took a half-day guided tour...

An Essay from Travel Writing Arriving in Mont-Saint-Michel feels like something out of a dream, or a memory. I remember first hearing...

On Saturday, my family and I went to Geneva, Switzerland. We headed to Gare Part-Dieu first thing in the morning, unfortunately having to...

Continuing from my last blog post about Paris, I arrived in Villedieu-les-Poêles and boarded a bus to Mont-Saint-Michel. Then there was a...

I started my morning at 5:00 a.m., after waking up around 4:15 in a state of wide-eyed, nervous excitement. The first thing I saw when I...

This Saturday, the USAC program took a day trip to La Clusaz in the Haute-Savoie region of eastern France. Our bus left Bellecour at 6:00...

On Saturday, I went to Annecy! Annecy is a mid-sized city in the Haute-Savoie department of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region, in eastern...

Or Tarte Flambée and Storks This weekend, I participated in a USAC trip to Strasbourg and the Alsace region in northeastern France! Our...