Setting up a budget can be one of the easiest tasks in financial management. Following that budget is often much more difficult. For many people, sticking to a specific guideline for managing money takes a great deal of determination and constant vigilance. However, maintaining this level of control can provide you with the funds to do just about anything comfortably.
There are special places which capture our imagination – and we dream and dream of being there. Tuscany, Fiji, Provence, Iceland, the Orkney Islands. There are books written by people who have moved to these places, which tell of the travails of settling in, of intercultural adjustment and learning to be a local.
You've flipped through a number of program brochures, talked briefly with your study abroad advisor, and are starting to get a little excited about the possibility of studying abroad for a semester in college. Now's the time to choose where you'll go and daydream what it will be like to live independently in a foreign country.
Saving money on travel is a good idea. Why? Because then you can travel MORE! Here are some tried and true ways to save money on travel.
South Africa is a coastal wonderland with endless kilometres of shoreline as it fronts both the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. Beaches abound resulting in a nation that mostly spends its holidays along the beachfront, given the great weather on offer and the superb quality of the country’s beaches.
In a few days, my family and I will be calling home to one of our favorite places to visit: Washington, D.C.
Have your kids ever asked you what life was like for people the Stone Age? What did they eat? What kind of houses did they have?
Remember those history books of yore, when it was all you could do to scan a page without dozing off? But since we’ve grown up and read more, we’ve realized that history is incredible – a treasure trove that dives into EVERY subject we’re interested in (and many we’re not).
Florida Culture for the Week of July 28 By Josh Garrick
Final Night – TONIGHT – July 28 – Ladies of Eola Heights
This ‘re-envisioning’ of Michael Wanzie’s wildly successful comedy includes a cast of Central Florida’s favorite actresses – Peg O'Keef, Beth Marshall, Blue Star, and ‘Miss Sammy’ Singhaus. “There is more than steel to these Magnolias” in this story – along with comic references to a community within walking distance of the theatre. Tonight is the FINAL night at The Abbey. Visit abbeyorlando.com.