Two Ward Green boys aged nine and ten have been lapping up the local culture in Romania, enjoying specialities like sausages wrapped in cabbage.
Callum Artley, nine, and Dempsey Smith, ten, went on a trip to Bucharest with Ward Green School as part of the Comenius Project, which uses traditional toys and games to spark pupils' curiosity about other countries.
Callum and Dempsey travelled to Bucharest with teacher and project co-ordinator Melanie Stott and a teaching assistant. They stayed four nights in a hotel where they met up with the Comenius group of 25 other teachers and 17 children from around Europe.
The English children had created maths board games and took them along.
Melanie said: "We visited the Romanian Houses of Parliament and museums. Bucharest is nicknamed Little Paris and some parts of it did look like that."
Callum and Dempsey came back with plenty of ideas and are going to become pen-pals with some Spanish children.
They also brought back a mascot - a handmade Romanian doll.
Nine partner countries are involved in Comenius and visits to Spain, Turkey, Sardinia and Greece have already taken place.
The next destinations are Lithuania in October and the UK in November when Ward Green School will play host to other European children.
