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WHILE most students were putting their feet up over the Halloween mid-term, 31 students and 4 teachers from the CBS secondary school in Ennistymon were tasting the atmos- phere and culture of northern Italy.
The tour, which was led my Mr Meehan, Ms Molloy, Mr Galvin and Ms Ahern, look in some of the worlds most famous artistic and cul- tural sites in the Italian cities of Flor- ence, Venice and Milan.
“We started off in Florence. We went to all the Cathedrals and say the Statue of David and a lot artistic stuff
like that. The bus driver then brought us up to a place where we could look out over the whole city and take pic- tures,’ said Leaving Cert student, Enda Slattery from Ennistymon.
The group then paid a visit to the Ferrari museum before relaxing for the rest of the day in a theme park.
“It’s one of the biggest theme parks in Europe. They have rolercoasters, waterrides and all that kind of stuff. That evening we went to Verona and did a treasure hunt,’ said Eamon Flynn from Miltown.
“We were split into teams and given clues to bring us to the famous parts of the city, like the Romeo and Juliet
balcony, and eventually you ended up in the main square. My team won the treasure hunt, we were there about an hour before the rest of them.”
After Verona, the group made their way to Venice before returning to the big city lights of Milan.
“On Monday we went to Venice, we had to go in on a boat. We got gondolas and walked through differ- ent parts of the city. We fed the pi- geons and had a tour guide around the place,’ said Leaving Certificate student, Daniel Mullins, from En- nistymon.
“The first thing we did in Milan was go to the San Siro. We had a
tour of the stadium and went into the dressing rooms. Then we went into the main part of the town and into this open cathedral with all these expensive shops in it,” continued Ca- thal McMahon from Miltown.
The tour proved a great success and learning experience for all who went.
‘‘[ had a great time there and I think I learned a bit. We went to a lot of places that we would have read about in out history,” said second year, Laurance Egan. “There was a few of us who had been to Italy before but for some of the lads this would have been their first time in a plane.”