In The City I Call Home

It has been a strange week. A week to reflect on lots of things and a week to look at our city of Boston and...

Thank You for Your Thoughts & Support

As some of you know, our ACIS headquarters is stationed in Boston in the beautiful neighborhood of Fort Point Channel, miles away from the tragic...

Tales in Student Travel | A Spring Blizzard Changed Our Plans

How’s your command of old Scottish? The famed Scottish writer, Robert Burns, in putting nib to paper one day, wrote the following: But, Mousie, thou...

Pickpockets: 5 Ways to Stop Them, 5 Ways to Spot Them!

Spring is on the way, apparently. Here in London it's hard to tell, but I've just got back from Barcelona (via Rome, Nice and Florence)...

Travel Tips for Surviving a Long Flight

When you return from a two-week vacation in Australia, the first question everyone asks is to name your favorite part (an impossible query for any travel-lover about...

Spotlight on Switzerland: Train Ride from Geneva to Zermatt

A friend of mine and I had taken a few days to ski in Zermatt, Switzerland. It's something we try to do each year. More...

Educational Travel | So Hungry I Could Eat a Horse!

The big food scandal to consume Europe earlier this year, particularly Great Britain and Ireland, has been the discovery of horse meat in products labelled...

Educational Travel: Exploring London’s East End

When groups come to London on an educational tour with just a couple of days in the city, they usually arrive armed with an extensive...

Student Travel | Reflections on a European War Tour

I'm just back from leading a "European War Tour" that took me and my group from California from the beaches of Normandy via Paris, Belleau...

Boston’s {Delightful} Commuter Rail

It was probably because the two cars in my house became unavailable over the summer and the bicycle option was less appealing during the winter...