Things You Might Not Know About Italian Spa Culture

I will always remember the time I went to Montecatini, a spa town outside of Florence. I pulled up to this beautiful gate and saw...

Paris and the Palace of Versailles in One Day

My flight from Madrid to Paris would deliver me to Orly Airport, south of the city. What a delight to fly into. It is not...

New Adventures in Vieux Lyon

My confession is that I had never been to Lyon. Well, at least never inside the city proper. I had passed it in my rental...

Churros, Churches and the Best of Spain in Spring

It wasn’t that I had had enough of Madrid. I had spent my first night doing a tapas route while bumping into a bunch of...

With the Monsignor in Vatican City

I feel like I have spent an awful lot of time around the Vatican recently. There was Easter and there was the beatification two weeks...

6 Reasons Why Travel is the Best Education

It’s often said that "traveling is the best education." I would thoroughly agree with this statement and if you’re reading this because you’ve organized trips...

8 Instagrams That’ll Make You Wish You Were in Japan Right Now

One of the many highlights of Instagram—besides capturing your daily life in a colorful stream of photos—is traveling the world through the lens of a...

30 Movies to Inspire Your Educational Travels

You may have seen our recent blog post about books that have inspired the team at ACIS to travel. We also asked a similar question about...

Tips for Traveling With Vegetarians on Your Educational Tour

I've been vegetarian for coming up for 18 years. I think it's fair to say most veggies are quite concerned about what they eat: we've...

25 Books to Inspire Your Educational Travels

A book is a way of exploring the world without ever leaving home. And while we would say there's nothing better than actually traveling, reading...