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Louvre
St. Chapelle, Concergerie and Eiffel Tower
Paris Walk and Water Ferry
When we arrived in Paris, the Air BNB place we booked did not exist. We did not have cell phone service nor did we have any charge on our phones to use any wireless service. We walked around Paris in the St. Germain area and found a place to stay for the night. First we …
Tate Modern and St. Paul’s Cathedral
Tate Modern and St. Paul’s Cathedral are next to each other, so we spent a day in these two amazing buildings. The Tate Modern was free, and the St. Paul’s Cathedral cost 25 Euro’s to enter with audio tour. We first went to the Tate Modern, and climbed up to the observatory to see London …
London Walk and Water Taxi
We spent our second day in London walking around town trying to explore the city the best we could. We took the Victoria line train which was unusually hot and then took a transfer train to Westminster Abbey. The Abbey had about a two hour wait, so we decided to walk around town. Big Ben …
V and A Museum
We spent a long time investigating this museum. Prince Albert created the museum for the Great Exhibition of 1851. The museum’s purpose was to “educate designers, manufacturers and the public in art and design. (https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/building-the-museum )” This museum was designed to inspire Britain’s industry. The pieces were chosen from all over the world. I took …
A day in London’s Natural History Museum
Of the many exhibits at the natural history museum in London, the fossil exhibit was the most spectacular in that it contained a wide variety of fossils I had never seen before, and it was local to the area that I was visiting in. Many exhibits in the museum had broad historical information about igneous …
Walthamstow
My first day in the U.K landed me in a place that I had known no information about: Walthamstow. I learned that the houses in the area that I was staying in were created by William Morris, one of the U.K’s most famous wallpaper artist for Victorian houses in order to house his workers. He …
About the Author
Mr. Jon Moyer is a Special Education Teacher in San Bruno Park School District in San Bruno, California, U.S.A. He traveled to the U.K and Paris to learn about the history and current culture and take elements of what he learned to design writing assignments from the pictures and the history of the areas in …
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