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Royal School Trip To Italy

On Thursday the 26th of March at 3.15am in the morning The next morning we had a continental breakfast and
students from first, second, third and fourth year and our prepared for our trip to Venice, The City of Bridges. We
three teachers, Ms. McElwaine, Ms.Murphy and Mr.Galligan departed on our coach at 9.00am and on arrival we took the
headed off to Dublin airport to catch the flight to Milan, water bus or the ‘Vaparetto,’ to the city centre of Venice. It was
Italy. We were all tired from the journey but as soon as we like a fairytale and we couldn’t take enough photographs.
arrived in Milan everyone started to finally wake up. There were gondolas floating past with couples and families
of all kinds. Venice has no cars or roads, the only way to get
We arrived in Milan at 11.00am and then met our coach driver
who drove us to Verona. On the journey everyone paused around is by boat or by walking where there are bridges. We
to admire the vast vineyards and cherry tree plantations as landed in Piazza San Marco (or St. Marks Square in English)
well as the occasional expensive Italian car that overtook and separated in search of some Venetian dinner. We met
our coach. We went and got lunch in Verona, some treating our friendly guide at 1pm in St. Marks Square, she guided
themselves to a traditional Italian pizza. We then began with us around Venice showing us significant buildings and
a visit to the Roman Arena, an amphitheatre that is world architecture. We saw St. Mark’s Basilica, a grand church with
famous for holding large scale opera shows. Following gold covered walls and the tomb of St. Mark. She showed
this we advanced to Juliet’s house where we took turns to us the Doges Palace and other significant architecture in
stand on the famous balcony and wander around inside the the square. She then showed us the Bridge of Sighs, where
building. After this we had some free time to walk around prisoners would sigh as they travelled under to the prison
the fancy shops of Verona. We then departed to our hotel, of the Doges Palace. She then took us around the narrow
the Hotel Rivus at 5.30pm. streets of Venice describing every aspect of the city in detail.

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