Leah Blank, a grade-11 graduate living in Montreal and elected in the year 2000 one of the Maclean's Magazine's 100 young people to look out for, takes us to France in this second episode of the Road Scholars series. She chooses France so that she can pick up the lovely French accent in Paris and to spend three whole weeks there having fun going around the City of Light. This she does before having another week of fun lying on the beach in the south of France tanning herself in the sun.

In Paris, after French lessons in an attic room, she climbs the stairs of the Eiffel Tower, struggles in the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa, shops down the Champs Elysees Avenue, visits French impressionist painter Monet's house, has lunch at creperies, eats escargots (snails) at the old Chartier Restaurant, indulges in Carambars, sings in the rain & gets soaking wet, sees real tanks on the July 14 Bastille Day parade, watches the Bastille Day fireworks display over the River Seine, and enjoys her French freedom.