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Travel by its very nature expands the mind, simply by the act of doing it. Regardless of where you travel, even if only over this next hill where you discover that the color of the sunset is different, it would be impossible not to learn something.
Malta has always been a geographic gateway between the European and Arabic worlds. Once firmly closed, the gateway is nowadays invitingly open. Its continuing function as a gateway is in underlined by the dozens of schools teaching English as a foreign language. It is an educational hive of activity in subject-areas spanning the past and the future. On the one hand, the world-class training...
There’s a certain kind of traveler that loves art and beauty. She seeks it out and spends hours trolling through museums, wandering around cathedrals and looking, seeing so much that she may develop a sore neck, or worse, Stendhal’s Syndrome. Stendhal, a 19th century French novelist, was so overcome with the beauty of Florence that he developed symptoms of...
Amateur chamber music players are well catered for with workshops and special courses all over the world, usually from June to late August. Musicians in Europe and North America especially, hold their own intensive workshops where amateur enthusiasts play all day and half the night! 
Lions, tigers and bears, oh my!
Before going to Provence my conjured images were of the land and seascape paintings of my favourite ‘Impressionist’ painters, Cezanne and Van Gogh so to go to Provence to paint seemed like the best way to experience and connect with this colorful region of France.
Indiana Jones recovering the Lost Ark of the Covenant or Howard Carter finding the treasures of King Tut’s tomb—these things have always fascinated me, so when I learned of a place that where I could learn basic archaeology and work on real archaeological digs, I was hooked!
Some journeys sprout in the imagination, take root in the heart and finally blossom into reality. My trip to Florence in July of 2005 really began more than 2 years before when I envisioned my wildest, most impossible dream. I wanted to study painting in the heart of Italy, the seat of the Renaissance, my favorite historical period. The how, the practical, was....jpg)
To the eye of the beholder Tuscany is a medieval open-air museum. Little or nothing is visible of its Etruscan past. There are scanty ruins on several sites boasting an Etruscan origin, but what we actually see when we get there is Roman relics among a wealth of medieval buildings. How “this” Tuscany came into being is not always clear, but the evidence is...
Understanding every word is out of the question, but if you learn Italian in the kitchen, speaking soon becomes as easy as eating.