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Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!)

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A sequel to the movie followed three years later, in the form of a 1983 television special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? in which the gang visits memorials and places related to World War I and World War II.

It also uses the same voice cast that worked on the television specials, It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown (1977), You're the Greatest, Charlie Brown (1979), and She's a Good Skate, Charlie Brown (1980).

This film contains a rare occurrence where the adults appear on screen, including having their faces entirely visible, as well as speaking comprehensible lines.

Paramount Home Entertainment released this film on VHS and Laserdisc in 1980 and 1995 in 4:3 format, followed by a DVD release (presented in its original release format) on October 6, 2015, and a Blu-ray release (as part of the four-movie Snoopy Collection ) on May 18, 2021.

Paramount+ made this film available for streaming on March 4, 2021. [1] It was later removed from the service but re-added (along with the other first three Peanuts films) on November 2023, to be removed once again on December 31, 2023.

Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!) received mostly positive reviews and grossed $2 million worldwide. It was released three years after Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown , and would be the last traditionally animated Peanuts film from the Bill Melendez studio and to be overseen by the creator Charles Schulz. The characters would not return to theatrical films until 2015's computer-animated The Peanuts Movie .

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The film begins in France, at a bar in a village where live music is playing. A man departs the bar, getting into his car. As he drives home, it starts to rain and he passes some greenhouses. He arrives at a chateau, where a little girl (later revealed to be Violette Honfleur ) begins writing a letter and is seen with a US Army satchel stenciled with the name "S. BROWN".

In the United States, Linus is introducing two French students, Babette and Jacques, who will be spending two weeks at Charlie Brown 's school, while Charlie Brown, himself, Peppermint Patty , and Marcie go to France. At the airport, the children, Snoopy and Woodstock are seen off by their friends. Lucy , who was not selected for the program, tells Charlie Brown not to come back.

During the flight, Charlie Brown produces a letter he received that was written in French. Marcie, who has been studying French, translates it and says it is an invitation from a young girl, Violette Honfleur to stay at the Chateau du Mal Voisin (The Castle of the Bad Neighbour). Peppermint Patty asks who this Violette could be, Charlie Brown has no idea.

The group first arrives in London and goes on a sightseeing tour downtown, while Snoopy and Woodstock play some tennis at Wimbledon. When Snoopy finds himself losing, he lashes out and gets thrown off the court. Snoopy and Woodstock head to the Victoria Railway Station and rejoin the rest of the group. The group looks at the English countryside while traveling to Dover, then finally arrive to briefly admire the White Cliffs of Dover before boarding a hovercraft that will cross the English Channel. They eventually arrive in France. Marcie uses her French skills to get a rental car for the group (resulting in some humorous scenes where she curses out other drivers during a traffic jam), and Charlie Brown buys some French bread. They drive to a farmhouse where Peppermint Patty and Marcie will be staying with Pierre . Pierre is a gracious host who appreciates Marcie making an effort to learn his native tongue, but Peppermint Patty thinks he must have an obvious crush on her. Pierre then gets worried that Linus and Charlie Brown went to the Chateau Malvoisin, as it must be some mistake as no one has ever stayed at the Chateau. When Marcie asks about it, Pierre says the Chateau is owned by the Baron, a vile reclusive man who hates everybody, especially foreigners. Pierre makes some phone calls in an attempt to find Charlie Brown, but no one has seen him and Pierre says he is afraid he cannot help Linus or Charlie Brown until they meet up at school.

When Charlie Brown and Linus arrive at the Chateau, a thunderstorm forces them to spend the night in an empty stable. Later that night, Snoopy (in his " World War I Flying Ace " persona) and Woodstock head down to a local pub to drink a few pints of root beer. Snoopy can dance in the jukebox for the jazz and boogie in the pub. Woodstock played the violin for Snoopy for the sad and happy in the jukebox.

The next morning, Charlie Brown and Linus find that breakfast and warm blankets have been set up for them by some unknown benefactor. Meanwhile, at Pierre's farm, Marcie and Peppermint Patty help with Pierre's chores, while Peppermint Patty, oblivious to Pierre's attitude, tries to tell Marcie that he likes her. Peppermint Patty then experiences culture shock as Pierre's family eats soup and sausage for breakfast and that she and Marcie will have to wear a school uniform while back in the States she wore her own clothes to school. Marcie adopts a "When in Rome" attitude and simply tells Peppermint Patty that when one is a guest of a foreign land, one must respect their ways.

When the gang meets each other at school, Charlie Brown produces the letter from Violette. Pierre says that she is a niece of the baron who owns the chateau; since the Baron is antisocial to his guests, it clearly must have been Violette who invited them to the Chateau. In a reversal of the first scene where Babette and Jacques were introduced to school back in the States, the teacher at the French school introduces Marcie, Peppermint Patty, Linus, and Charlie Brown to her class. The teacher is a nice woman who also says that while the four American kids are in class she will split the instruction between French and English to help teach her class some English words and to accommodate the exchange students. The class sits at tables; and Charlie Brown is made to sit next to Peppermint Patty, resulting in a brief humorous scene, consisting of Charlie Brown being angry at Peppermint Patty for criticizing him.

That night, the baron leaves the chateau to go to the pub and instructs Violette not to let Charlie Brown and Linus in, even though she protests that they must be hospitable as their family was many years ago, but the Baron is adamant that the new arrivals are not to come in. Meanwhile, Charlie Brown and Linus take turns to stand and watch to identify the mysterious benefactor. During Charlie Brown's watch, he gets sleepier while one of the windows lights up, then Violette appears and sets out flatware for the boys. As she is returning inside, Linus awakens for his shift and is annoyed to see Charlie Brown snoozing. Linus then goes into the chateau to get to the bottom of this. Eventually, he finds Violette, who says her invitation was a mistake. Violette explains that her grandmother had told her the story of a wartime affair that she had with Silas Brown , Charlie Brown's grandfather, who was an infantryman stationed in France during the Second World War. Corporal Brown had helped the village and stayed at the Chateau Mal Voisin. Violette shows a photograph of her family, one of them being her grandmother posing with the American soldier. When Silas received his marching orders, he promised to write letters, which he did for some time but they eventually stopped coming. Violette's grandmother moved on, though she never forgot him. Linus remarks that Silas looks like a full-grown version of Charlie Brown.

Meanwhile, at the pub, Snoopy and Woodstock are playing foosball and overhear the baron confide to the bartender that he knows about Charlie Brown and Linus and has tolerated them long enough, planning to do terrible things to them should they fail to leave by morning. The baron returns home to Violette's surprise, and in her rush to get Linus out of the room, she accidentally knocks over a candle which causes a fire throughout the chateau. Linus takes Violette toward a pair of casement windows, throws them open, and shouts to Charlie Brown for help. Charlie Brown wakes up and runs to the pub to call Snoopy and Woodstock. Snoopy and Woodstock rush off to the Chateau and Charlie Brown continues running to the farmhouse to call Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Pierre. Pierre calls the fire department while Peppermint Patty and Marcie follow Charlie Brown to the flaming chateau.

When Snoopy and Woodstock arrive at the chateau, it is engulfed in flames. Snoopy immediately heads to a shed and brings out an old-fashioned fire hose, while Linus throws his blanket down to Charlie Brown, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Pierre, which they use to catch Violette when she jumps out the window. Snoopy arrives with a barrel of water under Linus who also jumps to safety and later barks out instructions to work the hose, but the intense water pressure spins him around, splashing Charlie Brown. Woodstock pops out from the hose with a violin and begins playing along to the dramatic scene. While Snoopy is working with the hose, a fire truck arrives. Four silhouetted men use their hoses, and the fire is soon extinguished.

The baron, who is thankful that the group saved Violette and the chateau, promises he will never be inhospitable again, and now hosts Linus and Charlie Brown inside the chateau like a proper host. Charlie Brown learns the whole truth behind the mysterious letter he received. Many years ago, a friend of Violette's family was touring the United States and needed his hair cut at one point, and the barber was Charlie Brown's father. This news about the location of the Brown family inspired Violette to write a letter inviting Silas' grandson to stay at the Chateau. As the group prepares to leave the chateau to return to America, Violette gives Silas' satchel to Charlie Brown. The film ends when the group says their goodbyes and gets into their beat-up rental car.

The credits show pictures of the film's crew as a collage of designs showing the flags of the United States, United Kingdom, and France, the three nations in which the film is set.

Voice cast [ ]

  • Arrin Skelley – Charlie Brown
  • Annalisa Bortolin – Sally Brown
  • Daniel Anderson – Linus van Pelt
  • Patricia Patts – Peppermint Patty
  • Casey Carlson – Marcie
  • Pascale de Barolet – Pierre
  • Roseline Rubens – Violette / Violet / Patty / Sophie / Frieda
  • Laura Planting – Lucy van Pelt
  • Bill Melendez – Snoopy / Woodstock
  • Debbie Muller – Flight Attendant/French Teacher
  • Scott Beach – Waiter/Baron/Driver/Tennis Announcer/English Voice/American Male

Schroeder and "Pig-Pen" appear to have one line.

  • This is one of the briefest appearances of Lucy in any Peanuts film. She has only one line in the whole movie. When Schroeder , Sally , "Pig-Pen" and Violet say, "Bon voyage, Charlie Brown!", Lucy adds, "And don't come back!!!" After this scene, none of the characters listed above appear for the remainder of the movie.
  • Snoopy's tantrum during the tennis match was inspired by former tennis champion John McEnroe, who was known for his fiery temper and confrontational behavior on-court during games.
  • This is a rare time an adult is seen on screen. The teacher at the school in France is seen on screen and is bilingual. She speaks in clear English as opposed to the infamous "wah wah wah" trombone effects. The English taxi driver's face is also shown. This is the second Peanuts movie in which the adults actually speak words rather than being represented with the plunger-muted trombone sounds, but the first film to show adults.
  • The theme music for the film is romantic for the most part but gets darker when Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock must explore the supposedly abandoned chateau. The slower music is akin to the James Bond theme.
  • The songs that are heard when Snoopy and Woodstock first visit the café are "I'll Be Seeing You" and "Sentimental Journey." Later on Snoopy plays "Rum & Coca-Cola " on the jukebox.
  • The school scene where Peppermint Patty is telling Charlie Brown what to do, then snoring in school was taken from a story arc from the comic strip which originally ran between January 13 and February 13, 1976, where Charlie Brown's school "committed suicide" and was merged with Peppermint Patty's while Charlie Brown's school was being rebuilt. Due to overcrowding, students were made to sit together at tables, and Charlie Brown was forced to put up with Peppermint Patty's bossiness.
  • The theatrical and VHS releases have a Rated G MPAA rating screen after the closing Paramount logo. On further releases including the DVD, the rating screen is edited out, and the movie ends immediately.
  • The Paramount logo appears in a film-within-the-film named Laughing Bunnies, at which Snoopy and Woodstock laugh out loud.
  • On May 7, 1980, The Price Is Right taped a segment featuring a showcase saluting Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back!!) to be broadcast while the movie was still in theatres later that month. After showing a short clip from the movie (the scene on the plane with Snoopy eating and listening to headphones while hiding Woodstock in the ashtray every time the air hostess walks by) the first item offered is a three-piece set of American Tourister luggage. Following this, a week-long trip to London is offered. Then, after mentioning that Snoopy visits Wimbledon in the movie, Johnny Olson offers a set of two tennis rackets, a supply of tennis balls, and tennis outfits. Then, mentioning that the Peanuts gang goes to Paris on the last leg of their trip, a week-long Paris trip for two is offered. Following that Olsen notes that in Paris the gang rents a car which Snoopy drives - 'being the only one qualified to drive he takes them on the ride of their lives...and you'll have the ride of YOUR life in this new car from France!' - a 1980 LeCar. To top off the showcase a pass for the contestant and 24 of his/her friends to see a screening of the movie on the Paramount lot is offered. The contestant bid $8600, the actual retail price was $10,907 and he won when the other contestant overbid.
  • In the movie, we learn the name of Charlie Brown's grandfather: Silas Brown.
  • The car Snoopy rents in France is a Citroen 2CV.
  • In the scene where Peppermint Patty tries to get her baggage back from the baggage carousel, in some of Stuart Brotman's lines from Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (including "Oh, good grief!") can be heard instead of Patricia Patts. This means that this film is the last time Brotman's voice is used.
  • The 1983 special What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown? follows the events of the film, thus it was purposely left open-ended.
  • This is the only Mendelson/Melendez Peanuts movie to not have a theme song that's named after the movie.
  • Babette and Jacques are two of the many characters in the series to have a pointed nose. The others are Frieda , Lila , Lydia , Peggy Jean , Dolly , Janice Emmons , Melody-Melody , Mimi , Evelyn , Mary Jo , Nell , The Four Princesses , The Cheerleading Squad , Charlotte Braun and Heather . Jacques is also the only male character to have one.
  • After Linus introduces Babette and Jacques, the French students who will be studying in the United States while Charlie Brown and Linus go to France, the entire class goes up to welcome them. Peppermint Patty can be seen in the gaggle of children. Later on, she calls Charlie Brown to say that she is going with him to France as part of a joint effort with her school, implying that she and Marcie go to another school across town like in the strip cartoon.
  • At the airport, when Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty, Marcie, and Snoopy walk to the security detector, Marcie is replaced by Lucy.
  • A sign at Victoria Station reads "Travel Center " - considering that it is in the United Kingdom, it should read "Travel Centre”.
  • Somehow, the car is still running when a piece of the new bread Charlie Brown bought is in the engine.
  • When Linus says, "Wow, look at the time! We're going to be late for our first day of school," a watch appears on his wrist, but then a few seconds later, his watch disappears.
  • When Charlie Brown sneezes while holding the broken bread, he throws the bread into the air, but the pieces of the bread do not fall back down. Additionally, the cashier hands over the bread without charging Charlie Brown on either occasion.
  • In the end credits, the colors of the French tricolor flag are inverted, displaying vertical stripes of red, white, and blue from left to right. The modern French tricolor flag is blue (left), white (center) and red (right), though it should be noted that the red, white and blue pattern shown was used as the flag of France during the French Revolutionary period from 1790 to 1794.
  • Charlie Brown, Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock are standing outside of the château knocking on the door. We hear Linus say, "Let's get out of this rain", but Charlie Brown mouths the words instead.
  • Snoopy's first-class dinner menu on the flight to London includes "lamp cutlets".
  • After dropping Peppermint Patty and Marcie off at the farmhouse, Snoopy and the boys apparently have to drive for a long time and distance to get to the chateau. But later when Charlie Brown runs for help when the chateau is on fire, the farmhouse the girls are staying at is now just right down the road close enough to reach within a few minutes by running, and with the chateau being visible from the front door.
  • The color scheme of the Boeing 747 when it takes off and lands changes when it is supposedly representing the same flight.
  • When Snoopy enters Wimbledon, no one is there, and no one is sitting in the arbiter's chair that is later heard making the calls leading Snoopy to deflate it.
  • When Woodstock turns off the car wipers, they are completely down. But when Snoopy exits the car to investigate, the wipers are standing straight up.
  • After the hovercraft stops in France, the stairs are placed towards the middle of the craft. When everyone starts to exit, the stairs are at the back of the hovercraft. When the shot zooms out again, the stairs are back to the middle of the hovercraft.
  • When Snoopy is thrown out of Wimbledon, one broken racket is thrown out with him. When he gets in the taxi, he is carrying two rackets, and neither is damaged.
  • The size and length of Linus' blanket change frequently.
  • When the French girl shows Linus the photo of Charlie Brown's grandfather during the Great War, it is in color. In real life, it should have been black and white as cameras did not have color back then.
  • In the opening classroom scene where Linus and Charlie Brown stand and declare their trip to France, both Sally and Lucy can be seen. Sally is the younger sister of Charlie Brown, and Lucy is the older sister of Linus, so they wouldn't be in the same class or grade as their brothers.
  • When the rental car breaks down in the town near the bakery, Peppermint Patty has Charlie Brown go get bread and certain fixings to make sandwiches. One, Charlie Brown only buys the bread and nothing else, and two, even with him losing his share of the bread in the hood of the car, Charlie Brown should not have been left unable to eat at all due to the mysteriously appearing sandwich fixings. He could've eaten the meat and cheese rolled up or something.

Peppermint Patty in one of the groups cheering, although she goes to a different school from Charlie Brown in the comic strip.

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Bon Voyage Charlie Brown (And Don't Come Back)

1980, Kids & family/Comedy, 1h 15m

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Charlie Brown (Arrin Skelley) heads to Europe as an exchange student in this animated movie based on the "Peanuts" comic strip. Along for the ride are Snoopy, Woodstock, Peppermint Patty, Marcie and Linus. In London, Snoopy and Woodstock test out their tennis skills at Wimbledon before the gang heads off to France. Charlie has an invitation to stay at the chateau of a mysterious baron. But when they arrive on a dark and stormy night, it soon becomes clear that their adventure has only begun.

Genre: Kids & family, Comedy, Drama, Animation

Original Language: English

Director: Bill Melendez , Phil Roman

Release Date (Theaters): May 30, 1980  original

Release Date (Streaming): Oct 13, 2015

Runtime: 1h 15m

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Production Co: Paramount Pictures International

Cast & Crew

Arrin Skelley

Charlie Brown Voice

Laura Planting

Lucy Van Pelt Voice

Bill Melendez

Snoopy, Woodstock Voice

Daniel Anderson

Linus van Pelt Voice

Annalisa Bortolin

Sally Brown Voice

Scott Beach

Waiter, Baron, Driver, Tennis Announcer, English Voice, American Male Voice

Casey Carlson

Marcie Voice

Patricia Patts

Peppermint Patty Voice

Original Music

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Funniest part is probably when Snoopy and Marcy are cussing out drivers on the road!

"Bon Voyage,Charlie Brown,and Don't Come Back",was the fourth and final theatrical release that came out during the summer of 1980. For this finale,Charlie Brown,along with Peppermint Patty,her best friend Marcie, companion Linus and Charles' resourceful but always sufficient cool of the cool Snoopy and the rest of the gang travel to Europe to be exchange students over in France,and get into some vey interesting adventures while along the way,Charlie Brown falls in love. A awesome and impressive movie that is beautiful and also a spectacular finish to the Peanuts movies. After this installment,Charles Schultz would never produced another theatrical feature since this was the last of them,which was released in 1980.

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  • Charlie Brown and his friends travel to Europe as exchange students.
  • Charlie Brown, Linus, Peppermint Patty, and Marcie travel to France as foreign exchange students. Also along is Snoopy and Woodstock. While everyone is excited about the opportunity to travel to a foreign country, Charlie is disturbed by a letter he receives from a mysterious girl from France who invites him as her guest only to find that he does not seem welcomed to her chateau. — David Ng <[email protected]>
  • Charlie Brown is surprised in class, when it is announced that he and Linus have been selected as part of a student exchange program. Charlie leaves school to pack, and willingly invites Snoopy and Woodstock to come along. The surprises continue as Charlie finds a letter in the mailbox: and it's addressed to him! However, it's written in a 'strange language.' Shortly after going inside, Charlie receives a call from Peppermint Patty, who says that she and Marcie have also been accepted as part of a student exchange program, and will be on the same flight as Charlie and Linus. At the airport, the other kids see their friends off, with the majority calling "Bon Voyage, Charlie Brown." "And don't come back!" yells Lucy. After they have gotten to the ticket counter, everyone is shocked that Snoopy was able to procure a First Class ticket, over their economy-class seats. During the plane flight, Charlie shows the letter that he received, which came from France. As Marcie has been studying French, she offers to translate it. The letter seems to be anticipating Charlie's arrival, and offers to allow him to stay at the Chateau Mal Voisin ("The Chateau of the Bad Neighbor"). The letter is from someone named Violette, but Charlie has no idea who she is. Their plane soon touches down in London, England, where the group has lunch, while Snoopy drives up to Wimbledon and plays a short tennis match. From London, the group takes a train to Dover, before getting on a hovercraft to France. In France, the group manages to rent a car, with Snoopy serving as a driver. Their first stop is Morville, where Peppermint Patty and Marcie will be staying. Also with their exchange program family, is a son named Pierre. After Charlie, Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock leave, the girls explain where their friends are going. When Pierre hears about them going to the Chateau Mal Voisin, he grows apprehensive, saying that noone goes to the chateau, and the owner would never invite outsiders. They attempt to call the chateau, but receive no response, and decide to wait until morning. Meanwhile, Charlie, Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock arrive in the town of Le Heron, amid a rain storm. They pass by the school and a pub, and on the outskirts, they see the dark outlines of the chateau. However, noone appears to be home, and they end up camping in some nearby stables. Snoopy is assigned to watch the group, but once Charlie Brown and Linus are asleep, he and Woodstock sneak off to the local pub for some root beer. The next morning, Charlie and Linus awake to find themselves covered in blankets, and a meal prepared for them.

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The Kremlin clock in Moscow is one of the most famous clocks in the world. It’s up there with the Westminster Clock Towers in London and at 4.00pm local time on July 19th 1980, its chimes rang out not only across Moscow but the world as the chimes marked the start of the opening ceremony of the 21st Games of the Modern Olympiad and inside the stadium, the chimes were replied to by a triumphant bugle call during which time the President of the Soviet Union arrived in the stadium and in honour of his arrival, the Soviet national anthem was played alongside a display of the national crest of the Soviet Union.

The Soviets, who in the 1980’s had a flourishing animation industry, used those skills to tell the story of the Olympics and as a result they focused very much on the history of the ancient Games retelling such legends as the athlete whose loincloth got ripped off at the start of a race and led to the tradition of the ancient athletes competing in the nude, or the legend of the woman who wanted to watch her son win a wreath and nearly got thrown off a cliff for her troubles, or the athlete who on his return to his city had the entrance way he had come through bricked up after him so that no one else could enter the same way and as such the opening act of the opening ceremony was a modern version of those ancient games with the Olympic rings being paraded preceded by ancient Greeks asking for the gods to pay tribute to the Games, followed by Hera, mother of Hercules (the man who first coined the phrase “Olympic”) with her followers also seeking praise from the gods after which came the parade of the nations.

Now, you might be thinking “Allusion of the Ancient Games? This sounds all rather over the top?” and I would have to agree with you there, but you have to remember that the Soviet Union had a major problem on their hands (a problem that some people have claimed was one of their own making) namely the invasion of Afghanistan. The western world was furious with this decision and so the Americans called for a boycott of the Games in protest and compared to Montreal, twelve fewer countries sent teams leading to a parade that was very much shorter than normal. And of those that did attend, several of them chose to enter the stadium under the Olympic flag as a protest against that invasion.

Did that bother the Soviets? Did it, heck! They just carried on regardless with a commentary as the main Olympic flag was paraded that wouldn’t sound out of place on a piece of video released from North Korea today, thankfully normal service was resumed when the flag was raised to the Olympic hymn blasted out by the famed choir of the Red Army after which the doves of peace were released. Then came the arrival of the Olympic Flame, and just as in Munich it meant a climb to the cauldron but unlike Munich it was a much shallower ascent which meant that when Sergey Belov reached the top he was much less out of breath, however he then had a small problem. He was at the bottom of the cauldron. Not a problem to the great imperial Soviet Union as he stuck the flame into a hole at the bottom of the cauldron and a few seconds later, a flame appeared at the top lighting the Olympic cauldron. After which came the oaths, and in a strange precedent the athletes then vacated the field and you would think that the ceremony was over. Oh, how wrong you could be as two hours after the start a video signal was received by the scoreboard and two cosmonauts on board the Mir space station sent their blessings to the Games, which was followed by a display espousing the virtues of the Soviet Union by its various component ethnic populations which was then added to by the gymnasts of the Soviet Union.

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Hi all Maiden Voyagers! I really dropped the ball on documenting my last travel week but I’m gonna pick it back up and give you all the deets on Russia!

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So! For my core course, Globalization and European Economies, we travel to Moscow for five or six days learning all about Russian Economies and Culture. After a surprisingly short flight we landed on Sunday afternoon and headed to the Red Square. Stepping off the bus was like entering another world. The enormous, ornate architecture is breath taking. And of course, the first snow you see each year is magical. (Well, this was no novelty to the locals as I’d learn. It snowed every day we were there.)

DIS packs quite the itinerary, and we didn’t rest for a minute! Every second was action packed with metro riding, lectures at institutions, or cultural visits. Here’s the highlights of all three!

Metro Riding:

Gosh did we do a lot of it. You might be puzzled why metro riding gets its own category. Well for one we took it everywhere which adds up. But, this is no ordinary metro. It was built under soviet rule and is a representation of Soviet power. Each station is decorated in ornate mosaics, statues, stained glass, chandeliers, you name it. All of the art portrays happy, hard working Soviets with a bounty of resources. Absolutely beautiful propaganda.

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Institutional Lectures

DIS certainly meets its goal of making this an educational experience. We visited up to two institutions a day learning all about Russia. I know more about the Russian economy than maybe some Russians. It’s very dependent on oil prices, and is cursed with its resource dependence. While all of the institutions said they wanted to move away from oil, it was apparent that green alternatives weren’t gaining popularity yet. That’s what I took away from our many visits, but here’s a list of my favorites: the Bank of Russia, Sberbank, The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the IMF Russia, the Carnegie Foundation Russia, just to name a few!

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Cultural Visits

We had fewer cultural stops than educational ones, but DIS still squeezed it in there. We had some great cultural food like Borscht and Stroganoff. We toured the Red Square and the Kremlin, and got to spend a night with real Russian students making tangible cultural exchanges (excuse the goofy photo).

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And that’s it! Did it seem like a whirlwind? Because it was! I was so exhausted I slept for a whole day when we got home. An experience of a lifetime for sure! Bon Maiden Voyage!

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