BackpackinginEurope

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===The international student student identity is an internationally-recognized student ID. Be sure to get one not only as a form of identification, but also for lots of great student discounts! ===




[|Eurostar TGV]
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[|Click here to work on your Spanish.]
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Here are some photos from Mrs. Barth's most recent trip to London:
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London is my favorite city in the world; I've been to London more times than any other city I've ever traveled to -- other than Chicago! Here are a few of my favorite London haunts:

 * ===[|The British Museum]===
 * ===[|The British Library] Be sure to check out the [|BL's treausres] -- from Shakespeare's First Folio, to Lewis Carrol's handwritten draft of Alice in Wonderland, to letters written by Queen Elizabeth I, to Leonardo daVinci's notebooks, to the Bronte sisters' writing desk! [|Click here to read a blog entry I wrote on the collection after visiting the BL again this past June.]===
 * ===[|The Tate Modern]===
 * ===[|The National Gallery] and [|The National Portrait Gallery]===
 * ===[|The West End]===
 * ===[|Shakespeare's Globe]===
 * ===[|National Theatre]===
 * ===[|Covent Garden]===
 * ===[|Harrods]===

And here are some photos from Mrs. Barth's most recent trip to Paris:
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Be sure to check out The Paris Opera House -- haunted by the Phantom of the Opera:
media type="custom" key="3868481" ===And right across the street from the Opera House is the best department store in Paris: [|Gallery Lafayette.]=== ===Be sure to spend some time in the Latin Quarter, the ultra-cool bohemian area surrounding Paris's many colleges and universities. It's called the Latin Quarter because all university classes were once taught in Latin. [|Click here for a walking tour of the Latin Quarter.]===

Visit Brussels in five minutes! -- Brussels International's YouTube video:
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Enjoy the beautiful Art Nouveaux architecture of Brussels! -- Brussels International's YouTube video:
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Check out Lonely Planet's video introduction to Copenhagen:
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[|Check out Malmo University.]
===Malmo is Sweden's "greenest" city! [|Click here to read an article on Malmo's eco-friendliness on CNN.com.]===

See Berlin in a minute in this video:
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[|Hundertwasser is simply one of the coolest architect and artist! Check out this amazing website.]
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[|Click here to see Klimt at the Belvedere Art Museum.]
===One of Klimt's masterpieces is the [|Beethoven Fries], an enormous painting inspired by Beethoven's 9th symphony. Its history is intertwined with World War II and the plight of dispossessed Jewish families. [|Read more about it here.]===

[|Click here to learn more about Laussane on the city's official website.]
===Lausanne is the site of the International Olympic Museum. [|Take the virtual tour...] [|Look at Carl Lewis's golden shoes...] [|And relive Bejing 2008!]===

[|The Montreux Jazz Festival is one of the most famous jazz festivals in the world.]
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Here are The Strokes at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 2006:
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But beware of the pigeons!
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[|Have fun with Gaudinian geometry on the very cool La Pedera website.] Click on "Gaudi the builder."
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== Over Spring Break this year, Bradley and Nish were among the group of seventeen students and three teachers (Mr. Ballentine, Ms. Reimer, and Mrs. Barth) who went to Paris and Madrid. [|Click here for Mrs. Barth's photos from this trip.] ==