Engaged Travel

Travelers on a European vacation see an awful lot of ancient technology they'd like to display in their own palatial digs--marble statues, mosaics, and maybe a gondola to glide along the placid water of the moat. Did you know that you can actually go across the pond and make all these things on your vacation? Take for example that Greek marble statue of Helen you've coveted. Why not hook up with Greek sculptor Petros Dellatolas on the island if Tinos, get some local marble, and bang away until the statue you coveted is revealed?

The Dellatolas Marble Sculpture Studio is but one of the interesting Schools for Travellers we've found for you. Poke around and you'll find you can even learn Falconry in Italy. What you do with that skill is up to you. I want to build a gondola for the creek in my back yard. You never know when you'll need to hop in a boat these days, what with natural disasters like Katrina and the resulting high waters laying waste to one of my favorite cities in the U.S., New Orleans.

And if you've got a hunk of wild land on the other side of the moat, don't let them destroy the wetlands to build a mall; wetlands come in handy sometimes.