Most of you who know me know that I love to travel. The travel bug bit me early on in my childhood when we got our first camp trailer when I was in the fourth grade. But then it really attacked me my junior year in college when I spent a semester in Reims, France. While there I was able to travel to Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Holland, England and Germany before coming back to the States. It wasn't long after my return that I graduated and began teaching French. And three years after I began teaching I took my first student group to France.
I have been very blessed over the years to have led fifteen student/adult groups to over ten different European countries. I never grow tired of travel. And now I am so looking forward to our trip to Tuscany which leaves on September 17!
I think my favorite quote about travel is this one from Mark Twain: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." Travel changes one for the better, especially if that travel takes you outside of your comfort zone and into an experience that presents different languages, foods, traditions, religions, daily routines, environments.
So with that said, I will leave you with more views of Tuscan towns and landscapes. Arrivederci!
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| A frescoed ceiling in Florence |
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| The village of Greve |
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| A Tuscan spice market |
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| The walled city of Lucca |
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