Kimberly Moritz BlogPosts

It´s the last morning of our ten day trip, other than the final travel day home. I woke up early, I suppose it´s because I´m excited about the day. When I called Tallon´s room to wake them up for the trip to the flea market, they elected to sleep, but I tried to be convincing that they shouldn´t miss a thing. I´m hoping to see them at breakfast. We can sleep when we´re dead. Speaking of sleep, I´m a girl who likes 7-8 hours per night and I´m finding 5 works fine here. Maybe it´s the fantastic Spanish coffee!

I want to mention how terrific this trip has been as a bit of an endorsement for EF Tours. I traveled with them in the mid-90´s as a teacher and a couple of things have improved. Our hotel in London was very good, the one in Madrid excellent. The one in Paris is another story, but since it´s my only complaint, I´ll leave that for the evaluation. The food is much improved since my previous tours, I´ve really enjoyed every meal.

When we lead a student tour, one of the things that EF provides is a tour guide who´s with us the whole way. Ours on this trip has been Alexandra L. and she´s been absolutely fabulous. Her sunny attitude and easy spirit have helped set a good atmosphere. She´s also very accomodating and I never get the feeling like she wants to rush away when we have free time. In fact, she most often spends it with us. The thing I like best about her is that she really listens to our students and takes a sincere interest in them. Sounds like the same thing that makes for a good teacher, doesn´t it?

I think it´s a very good sign that we´re all talking about where we want to go in 2009 (Italy!), and we would definitely travel with EF Tours again. I´ve said it many times in these posts, this has been a non-stop, exhausting in a wonderful way, trip. I´m privileged to have come to know some of our students much better.