Finding Cheap Travel to Europe Case Study

OK,

Let's have some fun right now... We want cheap flights to Europe, right?

Putting the gateway city theory to the test, let's do a little case study on getting Cheap Travel to Europe :

I'm going on a travel web site to check for fares to London. Just pick your favorite for now... I may have some recommendations on best web sites in the future. But let's keep it neutral for now.

So I'm going online today and searching for cheap travel to Europe on a specific date with specific destination in mind and find some cheap flights to Europe if it's possible today. Hey sometimes it is better to wait for a sale.

Ok...

Let's say I'm from... Indiana and I want to take a trip from there to London, and I want to go in the Summer.
I go online -sorry that some of this will be super specific to today =( I see that Continental has a special on airfare to Europe. Wow! I can go for as little as $168! There's always a catch, right. Wrong! There are always several catches. Nobody is going to just GIVE away cheap flights to Europe. You're going to have to work for it. But I'm ok with that! The first catch is that it's from the East Coast, Newark. The second is that they are showing the one way fare, so I have to double it, but hey $336 is still a great deal, right? Catch number three (working our way up to catch 22!) is that taxes aren't in the price and the taxes and fees are outrageous especially since Sept. 11 fees etc. The final price for March dates is $406 Round Trip from Cleveland to London. The final catch is that it's a Spring sale and it won't last until June. May quotes are around $665 and June goes up to $882 before taxes, which will put me at around $1100. USD in summer from the East Coast. So I will have to find cheap travel to Europe somewhere else!

So I see that United is having a sale specifically on flights to Europe, so I go to their web site. Those stinkers want me to enroll (incidentally I already am but don't feel like looking up my numbers), so it takes a few minutes, but I finally get to the "book travel" page and I can begin to look for cheap flights to Europe. They are bragging about a good sale. So I work on a flight to London from June 10 through July 7, 2009. I try my gateway city (see Last blog post for the whole nine yards). In this case, I start with Chicago, the windy city and it blows me a $1293.20 not-a-deal. Cincinatti is $1327 and St. Louis is $1329. Louisville was even more, but Indianapolis comes in at $1096. including the taxes. Base fare is 718 and taxes are $378 (50% taxes?? Are we already in Europe?). Cleveland also comes in at that rate (though I'm not driving there, thank you very much, since Indy is the same. So maybe I look like a moron, but wait a minute. I check another gateway city, Los Angeles. Wouldn't you know it? It's $1141, almost $150 cheaper than Chi-town! Since Chicago is a United hub, this makes sense in the sick sort of way that alot of what the airlines do make no sense! So our cheap flights to Europe today are out of Indy and Cleveland.
Don't get excited if you are trying to get last minute flights near the summer and you find this post. These cheap flights to Europe have several restrictions and rules, so you DON'T qualify. I am using this as an example of the process to get cheap flights to Europe. The restrictions were basically, 7 day advance purchase by Jan 28 (today I believe) with a 30 day max stay and minimum Saturday night stayover. In my opinion, we can beat these rates, but it doesn't hurt to keep your ear to the ground. Play around and find a couple good sites that you can use when you are ready to book your cheap flights to Europe. That way you're familiar and have a password. BTW, I would just an email account for the junk mail like JohnDoetravel@yahoo or whatever and even sign up for updates on trip destinations (LONDON) you are planning to take and have them send you a heads up when there are what they consider cheap flights to Europe.

Now, here's where the fun begins. On one of the main sites (I'm still keeping it under my hat, huh?) where I know I can look up any flights, including cheap flights to Europe, I click nearby airports and see some flights out of Chicago going to Birmingham via Dublin. Now because I know a bit about travel within Europe and I'm going to get to that on this blog, but not today, I know that if I can find a cheap flights to Europe that arrive in Dublin, I can get out of there to the rest of Europe really reasonably as well. So I look at CHI to DUB and find a non-stop flight on Aer Lingus for my exact dates for $799 including the taxes ($679 + $120). That my friends is one of the best cheap flights to Europe I've seen in a while. And it's non-stop. Am I driving up from Indiana? At this point, at almost $300 cheaper, yeah (since I have friends in Chicago who will drop me off =).

Use Gateway Cities to find Cheap Travel to Europe

Using Gateway Cities to find Cheap Travel to Europe

Cheap travel to Europe is not a new interest. It’s probably older than either of us know. But before we go into the history of cheap travel to Europe (and don’t worry, it’s going to be a while before either of us wants to, and it definitely won’t be this post), you want to know how to get to Europe as cheap as possible, right? And once you get there, you don’t want it to suddenly get expensive, so you want cheap travel IN Europe, too right? No, you’re not too demanding. I’m still right with you. And so are lots of young and older people (“older” is just a nice way of saying old. Wink wink!). But you are going to have to do some work to find the deals, with help from people like me along the way.

The first task in finding cheap travel to Europe is getting there. I am assuming (and we know what happens when either of us assUME), that many of you are coming from N. America. So we’ll start there. I know I’ll get hate mail from Singapore to Auckland for this assumption. By the way, if you are looking for cheap travel to Europe from South America, though there are exceptions to every rule, you will probably find many deals flying to North America first, so hold the hate mail for a couple days at least, while you check that one out.

Time of year is helpful for finding cheap travel to Europe . If you can go outside the summer months, you will inevitably find it cheaper. Also flexibility of dates will help you find the cheap flights to Europe. If you HAVE to go a certain day or even week, reading this may just frustrate you. Sorry =( .

Since I assume (here we go again!) you are not looking to work on a freighter and get over to Europe on a slow boat, we are probably talking cheap flights to Europe. Cheap travel to Europe usually requires you to travel (at least) through or ideally from a gateway city. Now be careful here. Cheap Travel to Europe can look enticing at the stage of the low sticker price. But not so fast. Many airlines (especially European airlines) package their prices so that it’s not much more to go from your city than it is to go from a gateway city . But if you have to drive or take a bus to a far-off city and then transfer to the airport, pay gas, tolls whatever, your cheap travel to Europe will turn into an expensive trip at best, and a nightmare at worst (waking up at 2:00 a.m. to drive five hours isn’t fun). I am all for this kind of sacrifice—but only if you have genuine savings! Now, if you’re parents or friends are paying all the gas and tolls, food and hotel or you can find a cheap bus ticket, once again, you’ll have to get out the calculator and do the math, it’s your call. We are looking for cheap travel to Europe that helps you save hard earned pennies and in this case, we’re going to try and find a cheap flight to Europe that will offset your expenses and difficulties and be the cheapest all around travel to Europe, right? And once you get there, we’re going to continue to find cheap travel in Europe.

Where are you starting? This is a crucial question in finding cheap travel to Europe (or anywhere). I’ve already mentioned gateway cities, but distance will also define how low you can go in finding Cheap Travel to Europe . Is Los Angeles a great gateway city? Absolutely. Is it going to be cheaper than New York? Rarely or never, because NYC is 4,000 miles closer! Is L.A. better than Omaha, Nebraska? Probably. Let me see, cheap travel to Europe, as with all things will have exceptions to prove every rule, so please don’t get too upset if you find an exception here, in fact if you live in Omaha and you find super cheap travel to Europe, AWESOME! Be happy (and let others know in the comments) . OK, so what to do if you don’t live very near a gateway city and you still want cheap travel to Europe? Do you have friends or family in a gateway city? Can you go and visit them and combine your departure with that visit? This will also probably give you a free ride to and from the airport and avoid bus or taxi fares.

The same way that you use gateway cities in North America to find departure points for cheap travel to Europe, you will use gateway cities in Europe from which to come and go.

So now you’re probably saying: “Ok, get to the departure cities already that mean: Cheap Travel to Europe!”

But this isn’t an exact science either. Just using common sense, however, start with the bigger cities in your area that are East of you. I’ve already mentioned Los Angeles and if you’re on the west coast, It will be among L.A. San Francisco, Portland and Seattle. Moving west try Phoenix, Salt Lake, Denver, Dallas, Kansas City, Minn/St. Paul, St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinatti, East coast: New York, Philly, Washington, Charlotte, ATL, and maybe Orlando or Miami. Remember! This isn’t an exact science or a rule without exceptions! Don’t give up if you don’t live near one of these places! There is still hope for you to find cheap travel to Europe.

You might be saying, “so just try a hub of one of the airlines.” But this is ironically not always cheap, in fact for years it’s been MORE expensive to go in and out of hubs, despite the fact they probably have many empty seats on the connecting flights that people are taking through there. In cases where these cities are cheaper, it’s often the airline which is NOT using that city as a hub (example: cheap travel to Europe out of Cincinatti on non-Delta flights! I know. Paradox.)

Finding cheap travel to Europe into gateway cities IN Europe will also require some thought and insight. But for now, just try to find the cheap travel into Europe using London as the gateway city. It has recently become a great hub city for travel throughout Europe. In fact I recently took a flight to London from Central Europe and then caught a flight out of London back to Central Europe. Total price for both flight: $80 USD! That’s what I’m talking about when I say cheap travel in Europe! I’ll give you some more ideas soon. Thanks for your interest in Cheap Travel to Europe

Carving and Scratching: The Decorative Arts. People Enriching and Recording their Daily Lives

Column capital, Medieval Battle, Malbork Castle, Poland*

Rather than spend tens of thousands a year on institutional public education, do this: somehow surmount the liability issues, and use part of that money to take very small clusters of students to any foreign country locale, with a castle, and live in that area for two solid weeks.

Learn all you can just by first hand observation and personal research. Knights, armor, types, customs, music, art, crops, trade, plague, religion. Malbork, or Marienburg, Poland is rich in all that.

What the students learn they record. What they don't see themselves, you don't tell them. Just steer their observing. Have them play the instruments, try carving. Was this castle later destroyed? By whom and why? See if they don't come back with a vital interest that does not come with all our dumb passive education feedings year after year.

Hradec Kralove, Sgraffito

The Czech Republic. Go to Hradec Kralove, not just Prague.

Sgraffito - decoration design by scraping away top layer of light plaster to reveal darker layer below, here at Hradec Kralove. See ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sgraffito

The child diarist, Petr Ginz, World War II, tells us that his mother used to go back to this, the town of her childhood, from Prague. She came to get away, and return refreshed. See Places of Petr Ginz, Hradec Kralove. Young people can identify with one of their own in a war. Try them. Reading about it is not enough for empathy.

Telc, Sgraffito fooling the eye

Some forms of sgraffito are a trompe l'oeil technique - fool the eye - into seeing three dimensions, when there is really a flat surface.

The lower floor here is flat, with sgraffito. This dates from the second half of the 16th Century - a burgess' house. See ://www.discoverczech.com/telc/square.php4.

Exploring. No better way to learn. Bottoms up, kids.



On the way somewhere, see this in Poland.








Have the kids research it.



It is a visual hook to a pub down the road, for the chaperones.


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* Malbork Castle, a/k/a Marienburg. See Poland Road Ways: Malbork as Marienburg, Brick Gothic, Archways, walls with roofs, Reconstruction after 1945, Teutonic Knights, Grand Masters.

Op lopveop yopuop - Language sites

Common ground. The world's languages. Learn some French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Greek, Chinese, "Other" - at ://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/. Find some Polish there also, and Urdu.

And from another site:

Op lopveop yopuop
Means "I love you"
In "Op."

As in:

La-la-la-la, la-la-la-la-la means...

Universal human theme.
See the world saying it at ://www.translatum.gr/etexts/i-love-you.htm

Special Ops. Diplomats, soldiers, tourists. Learn to say the basics wherever you go.

Op. Which way is Op? *
Need to meet
Op Ed.

Portunity knocks.

Testing... testing....

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* Is this Opao, a language in an area near Papua, New Guinea, spoken by some 1116 people? See Ethnologue at //www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=opo

Ethnic group rights or non-rights, migration, immigration and co-existence

Considerations for the world -

1. Which factors more: Equity and fairness, or Time passing since a conquering, and then comes the rule of tough (does England go back to the Saxons, or the Normans, or the Romans or the Celts); and would the US go back to the Native Americans (as a practical matter, hardly); whether the ethnic group now seeking recognition was itself the conquerer or instead followed on the coattails of conquerors since displaced (Kosovo); whether Scotland reverts to the "Scotties" in Ireland, the Basques away on their own from Spain and France, on the lineages cry, let us join with ourselves, and let us be. Then, most recently perhaps, the Tibetans from China.

2. Keep it IYBY. In your back yard.

We have a concept here in the US - NIMBY meaning Not In My Back Yard.That means that a solution to a problem may be fine so long as it does not affect me or my property. Put in the town water tower, but not in my back yard. That also applies to population changes - let them do as they like, so long as I and my lifestyle are not affected.

We look at areas like The Balkans, current borders a far cry from original ethnic borders, given its location as a crossroads for conquerors of religious and military and commercial bents over centuries. And our resolutions may well be too simplistic - these people are not in our back yard, think our officials, so impose a resolution and get on with it.

But would we be so fast to impose that solution in our own country? Doubtful. What criteria would work for multiple separatist situations, not just Kosovo.

3. Get rid. But where or how? And why?

Now, in the US, what to do with immigrants here, without documentation, having crossed open borders like an invitation for years, and the backlash is now against them by many who would like to turn back the clock

The Balkans have dealt with issues of "unwanted" and "uninvited" population groups (like successive conquerors) for centuries. What can we learn from the Balkans?

• The issue moves from the legal or equitable right, of who to what; to a step beyond - what we have now, in 2008, and where to go with it now.
  

4. Dignity. The vital importance of it.

None of the earlier approaches have worked. They all included Rankism - me better than you.
Try the dignitarian approach instead.

We cannot undo history, we can only cope and adjust in a way that reasonably works, while affording full dignity to all groups - a new mindset. See ://www.humiliationstudies.org/news-old/archives/001256.html; rankism and peer to peer studies at .//blog.p2pfoundation.net/dignitarianism-a-p2p-movement/2006/03/08; and rankism at ://www.commondreams.org/views/100700-102.htm.


Ethnic groups worldwide, and how to coexist.

Starting point: Here we are, up there in the top row of 18,000 in Hartford's main city center (listening to Barack Obama).

Background of issue: We were in process of correcting some errors in identifying a certain statue in Zagreb. Croatia - see Croatia Road Ways (our believed Officer Yallatchich turns out to be King Tomas, or Tomislav).

VM, who provided the correct information on Tomislav, asked about another issue common to all countries whose borders include ethnic groups that do not identify with the dominant: what rights attach to the defeated, the conquered, who now seek their own identity in a perhaps more (?) civilized and tolerant world.

Unresolved. But we in the meantime heard candidate Barack Obama here, and we would like to share our thoughts.

Immediate trigger. We heard Senator Barack Obama, with his mixed racial heritage and the claims of blacks and whites, and reds and yellows and blues and the just plain drabs, like me and, as ancestors of all colors and ethnicity we all have somewhere.

Who has what rights to land and identity.

Does power have to mean eradication, or can we get beyond that, for a common good.

Conflicts of laws addresses this in jurisdictional terms, with mixed results in acceptance, so this focuses on how to foster coexistence, so that separatist movements are not needed. People are ok with the arrangement.

• So far in the US, the candidate addressing human issues on a global reference scale, and the dignity of people, is indeed, in our view so far, Barack Obama. He acknowledges all our own weird families and how that plays out in a culture. And uses that commonality to move forward.

• We may well be into new analyses and understandings, as he suggests. We may need to look to the future, while respecting and acknowledging the inequities of the past - move on to consider entire mindsets, and administrations and assimilation, not deportations and population exchanges.

Only so many resources, yet populations at odds.

Can we overcome our fear of each other, that the gain of one group means the diminution of another's opportunities.

This is an open call for comment, because the Balkans have dealt with this for years, and the US is just beginning as a nation, and an identity, and we may yet trip over our own feet.

• A starting point may be that small window of time where Islam in Spain coexisted for so many years with Jews and Christians, with handicaps and taxes to be sure in the "dhimmi" status of the Non Islam population. But it managed, without bloodshed.
  

What models can Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, offer the US. We start with offering a moratorium on acting against undocumented immigrants here, until a new administration can review the situation. See PoseJuxta, Plank, Legal Temporary Immigration Status.

My vote could go here or there because there is time left before decision is needed. But for Obama's speech on race, try this:

http://my.barackobama.com/hisownwords

Is there hope for America? Dare we be audacious? All of us. And hope? Watch the Powers drive it down again. Or try.

For war issues, contemporary, much stemming from missteps and lack of understanding of the dynamics between other countries' ethnic groups or religious divisions, hear his ideas at

http://my.barackobama.com/fiveyearslater.

We are working on ourselves. I may change my mind. But so far, this is the most reasonable, optimistic yet realistic candidate. So there we are.

Believing: Religions. The Orthodox Christian

Ostrog, Montenegro, Orthodox Monastery

History of the Orthodox Christian Church: Since AD 29, Pentecost. Hear some chants, the Russian Orthodox, at ://magnatune.com/artists/albums/monks-orthodox/hifi_play. Find Ukrainian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, Romanian Orthodox, many more.

See a timeline - always an efficient way to get started. See the timeline at the site for St. Ignatius of Antioch Orthodox Christian Church in Madison, WI: at ://www.saintignatiuschurch.org/timeline.html. But first, here is the home page (with bells at://www.saintignatiuschurch.org/index.html.

Site information from that timeline is summarized here, with other information as we find it separately listed.

For the first millenium: There was basically one church in claiming the direct line of the apostles since Pentecost, and five centers or patriarchates - Jerusalem, Alexandria, Constantinople, Antioch and Rome. There have always been other groups that the "one church" called heretic or schismatic - Arians, Bogomils, look up "heretic" - although they saw their interpretations as having as much validity as anyone else's, or better. Most eventually were killed.

954- Orthodox Church in Russia

Meteora, Greece, Orthodox Monastery

In 1051, the Great Schism. By 1054, the Roman Church Patriarch had pulled away in order to pursue his view of the Roman Church as the sole and universal leadership of the Christian faith. The other four patriarchates have remained in full communion with each other. The Roman church also had by then added the "filioque" clause in the Nicene Creed, not only the Father, but the Father "and the Son," with the later phrase not having been part of the first 1000 years' theology.

Rome vs. Orthodox:
Roman Crusades: 1095-1291- with the "sack of Constantinople," obviously a Christian city, in 1204.
Rome omitting to act when Orthodox put to death in Nazi puppet states, Fascist Concentration Camps, WWII, Balkans (elsewhere?)

1453- Turks overran Constantinople, signaling end of the Byzantine Empire. Note the defensive positions of the monasteries on clifftops. A combination, I recall, of inspiration, signs; and necessity.

Rome dividing into other groupings:
1517, Martin Luther's 95 Theses; Protestant Reformation
1529, Church of England; Episcopal. The Anglican Communion.

1538 - Ottomans overrun Moldavia, Romania

1683 - Ottoman Empire was finally stopped at Vienna, see ://www.geocities.com/paintedchurches/

1794- Orthodox missionaries arrive in Alaska

Rome's theology differing from Orthodox: (see 1054, "filioque" clause also)
1854 - Dogma, Immaculate Conception
1870 - Dogma, Papal Infallibility
See also the progression of terms in creeds, what is added, which groups disagree.

Customs, entering: See://aggreen.net/orth_links/orthlink.html. This site is by a technical writer, and easy to navigate. Go to the clothing and conduct section, at ://aggreen.net/laity_guidelines/laity.html.
Nin, Croatia, Early Christian Church (neither Roman nor Orthodox - All one Church then (9th Century?).

The church at Nin predates the schism between Roman and Orthodox, when the Christian Church was one church, and before Rome pulled away from the other four Orthodox patriarchates. This is said to be the smallest Christian Bishopric in the world.

Learn basic manners: Respect, respect. This takes forms that are not familiar to many of us, so read carefully and follow. Regardless of your own views, do as they. Do not cross your legs, that is too informal;. Skirts, are a must in some areas for women, and below the knee (the monasteries in Greece will give you a large square scarf to wrap around on top of your short skirt, or shorts, or jeans); long pants for men, no beach or athletic gear (defined?), no logos on T-shirts (how to get around these - are the scarves offered? I do not recall). Men, remove caps. Women may cover heads, not required. No smoking, including on entry steps, no gum;. When altar doors open, hands at sides or hands folded in front, no folding of arms, or hands in pockets, out of respect. Communion only for Orthodox;. Close doors softly.

Painted Orthodox church, Bucovina, Moldavia, Romania

The paintings are on fresco, see ://www.geocities.com/paintedchurches/. The churches date from the 16th Century, and the paintings are educative, didactic, a way to teach even outside the church. Armies also were mustered there, and walls surround many church complexes - teach the soldiers as well.

Wooden bars pounding, or beating wooden tablets, signal calls to prayer in many places, the Turks having forbidden the use of bells, and also having melted them down for arms. See geocities site.

Similarities in the hierarchical churches: Use of term, but differing meanings.

The "Metropolitan" is the term for the diocesan or "arch" bishop overseeing other, lower-ranked bishops in an area. See ://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_bishop to get started. Info there:

Roman Church: "Metropolitan Bishop." In the Roman church, the lesser bishops are known as "suffragan" bishops. Metropolis used to mean the chief Roman city in an area, like a province or "ecclesiastical province."

Greek Orthodox: the "Archbishop" is above "Metropolitan."

Slavic Orthodox: the Metropolitan is above the Archbishop.

Those with distaff side repro apparatus need not apply, because repro apparatus is placed higher than head or heart, and those with other repro apparatus have so ordained, even though the Founder did nothing of the kind. See theological meander at

The Orthodox and the Roman branches offer a verbal ok to thinking on your own, but not to coming to conclusions on your own that differ from the established line. This was not always true - look to the earliest years when Croatians began doing mass in their own language, 900 AD or so.


Gregory, Bishop of Nin, Croatia, 9th Century

Gregory here started doing the services at Nin, Croatia, in the local language, educating the people. This was soon barred by Rome. The Church in Croatia did become Roman Catholic; the Church in neighboring Serbia, Montenegro and much of Bosnia became Orthodox; with Serbia and Bosnia then being overcome by the Ottomans, the Muslims, in many areas.

Facts arriving after the belief has etched are either a threat, so to be suppressed, as in the case of Gregory of Nin; or become unlikely to change anything thereafter, so get 'em believing early, keep facts out (or make up your own) and keep 'em iggerunt. Is that right? See Joy of Equivocating, Emoticon Dominance Theory.

Rub the toe of the Saint for luck. See ://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/nin.html. And why the tall hats?

For a meander on theology and hierarchy in the hierarchical churches, do visit Martin Luther's Stove - Theology Anomaliesy

The Theme of the Arts - No Boundaries

Is it a fairy tale to want to see the arts put on the same educational footing as nuts and bolts?

This, an actual castle in Slovakia, at Bojnice - a 19th Century heir's renovation to an old, old place, to win the heart of his lady (it didn't work).

Still, young people every year put on a week's drama, pageant, dance, narrative, about his life - everybody learns history. Crowds and crowds come.

Thus, this Clearinghouse. This post is about putting in one place all the things about the arts development in various countries, that would be lost if put in the separate country blogs.

Here: Arts. Plays, music, theater, dance, photography, poetry, mime.

Here, Bojnice again.


Arts in other countries: see the rainbow.

Serbians. Some now in Ireland. Meet fiilm-maker, Goran Paskaljevic - "They've had 700 years of the English; we had 500 years of the Turks," says Mr. Paskaljevic in NYT 1/9/08 at E3, article by John Anderson. Both countries have had too-great shares of "internecine warfare, ancient resentments and cultivated hatred," says Anderson. Acknowledges Serbian role in the Bosnian wars that began in 1992 (see Bosnia Road Ways. Films: "Cabaret Balkan", a/k/a "A Powder Keg," dealing with the dissolution of Yugoslavia - attributing much to the "prejudices, beliefs, myths, courage and servility." Also, "Midwinter Night's Dream," a Serbian soldier's return and what he finds. Critics may say he "sensationalizes" but we would like to see the pending remake of "How Harry Became a Tree." The MoMa has a film series about displaced dreamers - that includes Mr. Paskalajevic. Read the list of films and abstracts. Come on, Hartford, we want that, too.

This topic brings a sadness as a former teacher, that these are being downgraded in priority in our educational systems. We have failed our children in basic reading and writing, and demands of technology and practical employment preparation, and now must catch up - but look at the butcher method. We are cutting out much of the arts.

Why not synthesize. Go about teaching writing after seeing a play, for example. Write a poem about a film, about a photograph that you have shown the class. Do it yourself.

Do it all, all at once. No need to compartmentalize.

Live with the bullet holes. If the budget does not permit covering over the bullet holes, as here at Bojnice Castle - leave it and it becomes part of living history.

Living is a totality.

So is educating ourselves.

Bullet holes are part of many lives. So is job-hunting. Reality.

So also are the arts. Support the arts, for everyone.