“I”s on the World: Perfectly Nice Time

Oh, the places we go … University of Illinois alumni are globetrotters who travel near and far, but never forget their Alma Mater!

Jay Bernstein and Shelly (Kretschmer) Pearson show their Illini pride at a Mediterranean Sea beach. (Image courtesy of Jay Bernstein)
Oh, the places we go … University of Illinois alumni are globetrotters who travel near and far, but never forget their Alma Mater!

Jay Bernstein, ’92 BUS, and Shelly Pearson, ’91 UIC, enjoyed the Mediterranean Sea in the south of France during their visit to Nice. The couple journeyed with a group in celebration of a mutual friend’s 50th birthday.

“There were 20 of us,” he says, “living, eating and exploring together in a beautiful chalet in Peymeinade,” once the summer home of Brigitte Bardot.  The couple also enjoyed Cannes, Antibes, Eze and St. Paul de Vence. This was Bernstein’s first time in Europe, a trip he’s planned since his days of studying international finance during the cold Champaign-Urbana winters.

For more photos of alumni around the world, check out our Flickr album. Send pictures of yourself clad in orange and blue to IllinoisAlumni@uillinois.edu. You also can post to www.Facebook.com/IllinoisAlumni and twitter.com/uiaa using hashtag #IlliniWorldwide.

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