Teir last stop was the Somme battlefields, where in 1916 the
largest and one of the world’s bloodiest battles took place on either side of the River Somme. “We saw a lot of battlefields, monuments and graveyards. Like a LOT of graveyards. Te ex- perience was really emotional. It put the war into a perspective we could physically see and feel,” she says. More than a mil- lion men were wounded or killed at Somme, 66,000 of them Canadians. After four days of solemnity, the group headed to Paris, for a whistle-stop tour of the city of love. Tis was Holly’s favourite part of the trip. Tey toured the Louvre, one of the world’s largest museums, which houses over 380,000 objects and dis- plays 35,000 works of art in over 60,600 square metres! From sculptures, paintings and archeological finds the students were blown away. “I took a picture with the Mona Lisa,” says Holly, “It’s actually pretty small.” While the group wasn’t able to ascend the Eiffel Tower, they
did take a ton of photos. “We went on a river cruise along the Seine at night and got to see the tower all lit up. It was beauti- ful,” she said. “We used the metro a lot, which was cool, and went shop- ping on Avenue des Champs-Élysées. I bought some neat stuff there,” she says. “We also went to Montmartre at night and saw Sacré-Coeur. Walking around Versailles was amazing and we also toured inside Notre Dame. It was definitely a whirlwind couple of days but it`s something I`ll never forget.”
Holly on her whirlwind tour of Paris.
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