Italian Weekend!

This past weekend, Thursday the 6th through Tuesday the 11th, IES didn't have any classes scheduled, so three friends and I took off for a weekend in Italy! Here's the link to pics:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2037384&l=c5067&id=17703396

We had to take a train to Paris Mont Parnaisse (during which time there was a French train strike, but luckily our train was one of the few that was running), then the metro to the shuttle bus stop in the middle of the city. There we took an airport shuttle bus to the Beauvais Airport which is actually about 1h15mins outside of the city. (we got super cheap 30Euro plane tickets so it made the travel work worth it.) From Beauvais we flew to Bergamo (a cute Italian city and hour outside of Milan). We got in really late, so we took a cab to our very nice hostel. Then the next day, Friday, we took a city bus and another shuttle into Milan, where we had lunch and saw all of the fancy, haut-couture shops. That evening we took a 3-hour train from Milan to Venice, where we stayed for 3 nights/ 2.5 days seeing the sites and hanging out. Monday, when we went to catch our train out of the city, we discovered there was now an Italian train strike, but luckily we were able to squeeze onto a later train by sitting on foldout chairs in the isle. We spent Monday night in Bergamo again so we could catch our 6am flight back to Paris Tuesday morning. Tuesday we spent in Paris for the day. I explored the Latin Quarter with my friends Laura, from my program, and Devon, who I know from UPS who is studying in Paris. Overall, it was a very lovely and tiring weekend! Make sure to check out my pics! (you don't have to have facebook to see them even though the album is hosted by facebook)