Could This Year’s Beautiful Acqua Alta in Venice Be the Last?

If you are lucky enough as a tourist to have been inundated with water in San Marco, you will have been the recipient of the...

A Food & Wine Lover’s Guide to Piedmont, Italy

So, what do you do when you need a break from Turin? The good news is that Piedmont is Italy’s new culinary region for cutting...

Everything You Need to Know About Visiting Turin, Italy

Our journey to Turin turned into a long day in the car. An adventure in the dead of winter involving a train and lots of...

4 Signs You’re Ready for a Pathfinder Tour

We’re proud to introduce a new type of travel to the world of educational group tours. A type of travel that thinks outside the bus,...

Where to Find the Best View in Italy

Every time I go to Venice, I get caught in that star struck moment—is it live, is it Disney, or is it even Las Vegas?...

Italia Nord, Italia Sud, and the Trains that Unite Them

Italy is a strange and wonderful country. It is at once hopelessly inefficient, exasperating, and unfathomable. Its regions are fiercely independent and culturally alien to...

My Dinner With a Countess in Her Paris Home

This is a guest post written by Teresa Engebretsen, a French teacher from North Carolina. This post originally appeared on The Sabbatical Chef. On the...

Finding My Roots in Eastern Poland

My mother was born in West Prussia in 1941. It was then part of Germany, but on 18 January 1945 the family received an "evacuation...

A Decadent History of Italy’s Most Popular Chocolates

This blog post was written by ACIS Tour Manager, Giacomo Gambone. The history of chocolate as we know it, the most innocent of all sins,...

3 Delicacies to Try at La Boqueria Food Market in Barcelona

I love visiting food markets and spice markets. I have done my fair share of travelling, have wandered through the souks in Morocco, and am...