Lonely Planet’s Crete is filled with 245 pages of information about Greece’s most hospitable island. Unlike most other travel guides, Lonely Planet focuses the first half of the book on understanding the history and culture of Crete. Then, with a solid background in this pertinent information, author Victoria Kyriakopoulos moves on to discuss the nitty gritty of traveling in Crete.
As international educators, we are often working with languages - teaching, learning, speaking them.
SCHOLAR-LED WALKING SEMINARS DEBUT IN PHILADELPHIA
Context expands its network of scholars in the U.S. and begins offering walking seminars in Philadelphia.
ArtsCamp! at the Lake Wales Arts Center
One of our travel guides partners, Not For Tourists, has several unique offerings for travelers on their website this week. Check out the following highlights from their Seattle correspondents this week...
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Seattle's Own Wonka
Amy Mikel
May
19
/ 2009
Sculpture by Florida Artist becomes Icon in Rebranding a City
A Journey into Matisses’s South of France by Laura McPhee
Hong Kong: Roaring Forties Press, 2006.
When Kunde handed me the bag of clean laundry and said, “Seis mil pesos,” I wished I spoke more than a few words of Spanish. It wasn’t that I didn’t understand him—he was telling me the cost of the wash was 6,000 pesos, roughly the equivalent of three dollars—it was that I wanted to counter that he was charging too much. Six thousand was