LUSELAND – The Luseland District School Europe trip is coming up quickly! Students will take off and leave for Europe April 17 and returning home April 27. The Travel Club will be visiting Scotland and Ireland this year.
Leaving for 10 days, their itinerary is filled with plenty of exciting things for the students participating to see. Their first stop will be in Ireland, where they’ll spend the next three days in Dublin with a tour guide before heading to Belfast for two days. Halfway through the trip, they’ll travel to the Edinburgh Region, where they will stay until it is time to go home. During their time in Edinburgh, they’ll get to tour castles, see Loch Ness and visit the Highlands.
A couple of students who are going on the trip said they’re looking forward to seeing and learning about the culture, history, cuisine and just seeing all there is to see in the two countries. They added that it’s unlikely they will get another chance like this, especially with friends, so best to take it now.
One student, who is a fan of horror movies, said that she is looking forward to the most is the ghost tour they’ll go on, seeing the parts of Edinburgh that inspired author Robert Louis Stephenson’s “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, a book that is a defining book for the gothic horror genre. The tour will show the dark, demented and twisted side of Edinburgh, seeing bricked-over passageways and caged crypts.
This year, the highly anticipated Europe trip was open for students from Grade 9 (with a chaperone) to Grade 11, with many of them signing up. For those who chose not to go, most of them did so with plans to head to Europe or somewhere else with family instead.
