The Netherlands, Belgium and France: Flowers and Photography
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My trip continued to the lovely country of France. This part of my trip was the very best part! At this point, I was comfortable enough with my friends and exploring unfamiliar places that I did not feel nervous. Our first day in France, we traveled to the outskirts to visit Versailles and Giverny. Versailles…
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One of our adventures was to Belgium, where we visited Antwerp, Bruges, and Brussels. Antwerp was amazing because of the architecture and old castles that surrounded the city center. I even got to have an infamous Belgian waffle. It was interesting because it was a savory waffle, with bacon cheese, and lettuce. I loved it!…
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Last May, I had a layover in Amsterdam while traveling home from two weeks abroad in Greece with CAES. I can remember flying in and seeing lucious fields of grass and tulips from above. Amongst them were little sectors of homes that looked almost like gingerbread houses. With the landscape looking entirely different from that…
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Along my travels with the CAES “Flowers and Photography” study abroad maymester, we visited Paris, France. On our first full day in Paris, we ventured to two separate towns, the first was Versailles, home of Louis XIV, and the second was Giverny, home of impressionist artist Claude Monet. Versailles was just as I imagined, a…
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A nice shot from Keukenhof gardens, just outside Amsterdam in the Netherlands the day we arrived for our Flowers and Photography study abroad trip. I’m not going to lie, this day was a bit rough from around the noon mark onward, as most of us had departed Georgia in the afternoon only to arrive in…
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On May 26th, my study abroad group and I traveled to Giverny, France to visit Claude Monet’s gardens and home. This was definitely my favorite part of the Flowers and Photography in Europe Maymester. Plants and art are two of my favorite things, so being able to see Monet’s gardens and home was all very…
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I participated in the Flowers and Photography Maymester study aboard. During this program we visited three countries within Europe. We first went to the Netherlands, then Belgium, and France. The program focused on different gardens, plant production nurseries, and how to take representative photos of flowers. In this post I want to focus on the…
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One of my most memorable experiences I participated in while in Belgium was a chocolate making workshop. We learned how to make pralines from scratch. The opportunity to make Belgium chocolate was not only a delicious endeavor but also incredibly fun and rewarding experience. The process of tempering the chocolate is where the real magic…
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I am writing this one after returning to the US and have had some time to reflect on my time abroad, and let me say I will remember this trip for the rest of my life. I had written in my previous post about my time in the Netherlands, and after that the remainder of…
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Hello! My name is Lan Nguyen. I am a fourth-year Environmental Resource Science major with two minors in Horticulture and Geography. I was fortunate enough to have been accepted into Europe: Flowers and Photography Maymester led by Dr. Julie Campbell and Dr. Jessica Holt. Before the program started though, I had to plan a few…