On the way back from a week-long English language immersion retreat in rural Spain in 2014, I asked the bus driver to drop me off at the Ávila mirador, or lookout. As I stepped down the stairs to collect my suitcase, I could hear others on the bus—students and tutors I had just spent a weekContinue reading “Medieval Ávila “
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Boston Freedom Trail
Follow the red brick stripe! The path, starting at the Information Center in Boston Common, a site where colonists gathered to rally, winds through city blocks for two and a half miles, linking historically significant sites from days of the American Revolutionary War, the war for independence from England, and the country’s early years. The trailContinue reading “Boston Freedom Trail”