When my flight from Ireland via Frankfurt arrived during the brisk Geneva evening at 7:30, I had already mentally prepared to stay the night in Switzerland and travel onto France the next day. Yet, the last train to Besançon left in an hour. Not an overabundance of time to execute an international arrival and subsequent train departure.
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My stop in Dublin wasn’t to find U2 playing in a local park or Pierce Brosnan referring to his role in a James Bond film, but to finally decide if Guinness was a beer I really like or not.
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What to do? With any decision, we followed our stomaches and guided us to the Puerto Madero waterfront to the best Buenos Aires restaurant.
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Dulce de leche, empanadas, pizza, and asado have a special place in our hearts. Between every parrilla or empanada joint in Buenos Aires, Argentina, there is a panadería offering a tasty assortment of pastries, cookies, sweets, and breads.
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No Parisian visit is complete without heading up the Eiffel Tower. Yet students had to decide between the Eiffel Tower with me or ride a bateau mouche with the other teachers.
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We left the French beaches of Cote d’Azur the next morning on a bus to the home of the 1968 Winter Olympics, Grenoble.
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Getting anxious for another adventure, but this time an educational village of 44 teachers and students were taking over narrow France streets.
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The best souvenirs come in many forms. Our perfect Thai souvenir arrived from the N.T.S.D.I.B.A. (National Thailand Stork Delivery of International Babies Association).