London & Northern France 2013.

Ana, Liz, Chelsea, Jessica, Maria, and Sandy were the third group of scholarship recipients from the Reed Foundation, whose generous grant sent all six CTEC students to London and Northern France for a free art study trip. Fellow CTEC student Maddison, former Reed Scholar Katie, along with Jake Yeager, Mr. and Mrs. Stragier, and Mrs. Tova Black as chaperones, joined in the adventure. We visited London, Canterbury, the D-day Beaches of Normandy, Mont St. Michel, St. Malo, Chartres, Versailles and Paris. Our tour director was Trevor and our tour company partner was EF Tours. See photos from our travels below.

Breakfast with Delta.

First tube ride into London from our hotel stop in Greenwich.

Tova Black with Bobbies on Carnaby Street.

Ana and Liz and a "real" soldier outside Cool Brittania.

Local news: A baby to Kate and William!

A proud Queen Grandmother in a window display on Carnaby.

Big Ben at night.

The girls, across from the Tower of London.

St. Paul's Cathedral.

The changing of the guards at Buckingham Palace is not for everyone.

Keith, our local London guide.

Statue of Lloyd George in Parliament Park.

Statues of 20th century martyrs on the façade above the Great West Door of Westminster Abbey. They are Maximilian Kolbe, Manche Masemola, Janani Luwum, Grand Duchess Elizabeth of Russia, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Óscar Romero, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Esther John, Lucian Tapiedi, and Wang Zhiming

In front of Westminster Abbey.

Glorious.

Winston Churchill in Parliament Square, London.

Double decker bus.

Queen Victoria outside Kensington Palace.

Sandy and Maria sketching in Hyde Park.

Kenny Hunter’s "I Goat" sculpture stands as a symbol for the various waves of migration that have found sanctuary here and helped to shape it. As an image of persecution and sacrifice, it reflects how each successive group of immigrants have faced their own combination of conflict, oppression and poverty.

Christ Church, Spitalfields, in the White Chapel district, home to Jack the Ripper.

The tallest and shortest man on the tube, together.

Trevor, our tour director, leads the way in Canterbury.

Medieval walls.

The Old Buttermarket in Canterbury, near Mercery Lane, Burgate and across from Canterbury Cathedral.

Canterbury house row.

Models Jake, Maddison and Liz.

Jessica and Katie in Canterbury Courtyard.

Canterbury Cathedral courtyard.

Propaganda, Caen Memorial Museum.

Nazi detritus, Caen Memorial Museum.

Hitler rubbish, Caen Memorial Museum.

WWII American Propaganda poster.

Gold Beach.

Arromanches.

Arromanches.

25 pound field gun on display at Arromanches.

American soldiers at D-day in a landing craft.

D-day landing craft at Arromanches.

American Cemetery, Normandy.

American Cemetery, Normandy.

Omaha Beach, at the American Cemetery.

The Real "Private Ryans" at the American Cemetery Musuem, Normandy.

American Cemetary, Normandy.

The group on a bridge in Plancoët, a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Brittany, northwestern France.

Ana in Plancoët.

Sandy, Maria and Jessica.

Chelsea, Maddison, Ana.

Katie, Liz and Mr. Black

Mr. Yeager, Mrs. Black, Lindsey and Kim.

Mont St. Michel.

Steps to the top of Mont St. Michel.

Inside the abbey of Mont St. Michel.

Shops in Mont St. Michel.

In the columned halls of Mont St. Michel.

Restaurant La Mère Poulard, Mont St. Michel.

Castello di Saint-Malo.

Coco, our local guide in Saint-Malo.

Statue of French privateer and slave trader, Robert Surcouf, in Saint-Malo.

Streets of Saint-Malo.

Liz with a pirate in St. Malo.

24 English Mastiff dogs were led around the streets by their guards and released outside the Grand’Porte at nightfall. The dogs, which were not fed during the day, chased after people who had not returned home in time.

Sweet and savory crepes for lunch at La Taverne Bretonne in St. Malo.

Saint-Malo.

Realxing Plancoët.

Plancoët.

Liz and Maddison sketch in Plancoët, France.

Jessica and Katie drawing atop a waterfall in Plancoët.

Maria sketches.

Teachers Jake Yeager and Scott Stragier.

Beautiful Chartres.

The famed cobalt blue glass of Chartres.

More of the famed cobalt blue glass of Chartres.

A quick rain in Paris during dinner at Marco Caffè.

Katie, Jessica, Maddison, Sandy, Ana, Liz, Chelsea and Maria at dinner in Marco Caffè.

Jake, Lindsey, Kim and Trevor at dinner in Marco Caffè.

Tourists add their locks to the the Pont des Arts or Passerelle des Arts, then throw the key into the river Seine.

Notre Dame.

Ana, Mrs. Black, Sandy and friend near Notre Dame.

Beautiful views of the Seine just after a quick rain.

Only in Paris: sad clown plays accordian while sun sets near the Paris-Plages.

Scooters to work!

Listening for information near the St. Michel Fountain in the Latin Quarter.

Pantheon, Paris.

View from the Trocadéro.

The group at the Trocadéro.

Gilded ceilings of Versailles.

In the gardens at Versailles.

Apollo in his chariot drawn by four horses, and surrounded by four Tritons and four sea monsters.

Sacré-Cœur, Paris.

View from Montmartre.

The Inverted Pyramid of Pei at The Louvre.

"Grande Odalisque," an oil painting of 1814 by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

The "best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world" - The "Mona Lisa," by Leonardo da Vinci.

Triumphal Arch (Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel) at Tuileries Garden, Paris.

The group relaxes after a stroll through Tuileries Garden, a public garden located between the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde.

Maddison and Ana paint under the Eiffel Tower.

Checking each other's work under the Eiffel Tower.

View from Montparnasse Tower, constructed from 1969 to 1973, it was the tallest skyscraper in France until 2011,

View from the 59-floor Montparnasse Tower observation deck.

The entire group in front of the Tower, before our sunset cruise on the Seine.

Sunset cruise on the Seine.