ANN ARBOR, MI -- In the spring of 2017, the Michigan football program changed the way teams may treat their final week of spring practice, as the Wolverines traversed all the way to Rome, Italy for a week of sightseeing, on-location learning and culminating in the final three practices of the spring session.

While it had been said that the team was likely to head to South Africa in 2018, Michigan head coach Jim Harbaugh left it up to a team vote -- and when that happened last week, a change was on the horizon.

"Yeah, we took a straw poll," Harbaugh said. The result of the vote? The team chose to go to three places in Spring 2018, returning to Europe. "Paris, Normandy and London."

With the news that the team would be going to two French locations before heading to the United Kingdom, Harbaugh stressed why he thinks it's a good idea to take in more places, rather than settling down in one place.

"Rome was great, there was so much to see," Harbaugh said. "But one of the things we thought about after the trip was to go to multiple places. Not just stay in one place.

"There was so much to see in Rome -- it was unbelievable. There is in Paris, but we're [going] there to see Paris, Normandy and London."

As far as practice is concerned, how it will be broken up hasn't been decided yet -- at least not officially.

The Wolverines held three practices in Rome, but it isn't sure if they'll have more or less on the 2018 trip.

However, Harbaugh says that he'd like to have practices in at least two of the three locations.

"We'd like to practice in Paris and in London," Harbaugh said. "Split up the practice this time."