Articles by Courtney McDonald

We haven’t posted on here in a while, but we sure do talk about it a lot. We are assuming that the Russian comments we […]

In February during our winter break, we went to Sicily for a week.  Thanks to the miracle of the internet, we were able to book […]

In early January, I had a music educator’s workshop which was conveniently located in Rome.  My workshop was just 2 days and then Mike flew […]

As has become our tradition, we stopped in Ireland again on our way back to Romania after visiting in NJ and Victoria.  This time we […]

Before going home for December break, we had a long weekend.  What’s the best way to decide where to go? Scroll around on the Google […]

The hills are alive with the smells of würstel and pretzels.  For October break we roamed around the cities and countryside of Austria by foot […]

SPRING BREAK!! WOOO!  For Spring break we spent a week in Amsterdam.  April is a great time to be in Amsterdam and this week, in […]

For the second part of our winter break we drove from San Sebastian, Spain back into France and stopped in a few towns along the […]

For our winter break in February, we went back to one of our favorite places on the planet, San Sebastian, which is in the northern […]

At the end of January I brought some of my students to Russia for a choir festival in Moscow.  The whole trip was five days, […]