On a misty grey morning at Scotland’s historic Culloden Battlefield, our daughter Lillie did not want to leave.
We had arrived early. Hours (and hours) later, a guide came to tell us the site was closing. Lillie kept going back to the same long stretch of Drummossie Moor, listening hard to the wind. She wandered to and from Leanach Cottage, meandering among clan grave markers, treading lightly and with respect. She asked questions, then went back to the marsh to think.
After almost two decades of publishing Wandering Educators, I get the same question from teachers more than any other.
Where do I find an education travel adventure that is actually worth the time and money?
It is a reasonable question. Search the phrase, and you will find tour companies first, marketing copy second, and very little real guidance written by someone who has actually traveled with educators, watched what works, and seen what falls flat.
This article is your guide.
I have been publishing Wandering Educators for almost two decades. I have a PhD in international education. My passport has stamps from places I have lived, and places I have passed through too quickly.
For much of my early years experiencing and writing about travel, I was wrong about almost everything.
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