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"I gained a passion and enthusiasm about art that has helped me decide where to head in life. what AHA provides is an infectious interest in self-education. AHA is a wonderful gap year option and far better than running off to Thailand or the like to 'find yourself' as so many people do."
Ella Hickson, Spring 2004
Free time and evenings
Most people join the course on their own and everyone, both students and the tutors are on the course because they share an enthusiasm for art and want to have the best time in Italy. This perhaps explains why many good and lasting friendships are made. There is an abundance of things to discover in Italy other than art and the evenings are an excellent time to explore.
Free time
Many split their free time between further exploration, rest and shopping, however on many occasions tutors have led optional intrepid expeditions to exciting seasonal exhibitions, trips to other towns, and football or rugby matches. Our student feedback forms indicate that students are happy with the amount of free time, with the 2 hour break for lunch and the various ‘frees’ spread throughout the course.
Lunches & Suppers
We feel it is un-adventurous to have set arrangements for eating when one of the more attractive aspects of Italy is the food. Lunch tends to be taken according to where each tutor group ends up; if it is a fine day it is nice to have a picnic or our tutors, who know the cities we visit well, may know some student or marketeer’s cafe nearby. Each evening we suggest somewhere new and inexpensive to eat and, despite the fact that students can go their own way for supper, we tend to all eat together. We suggest that students bring £27 per day to cover lunch and supper and occasional spending.
Evenings
Tutors are constantly on the look out for good things to do; concerts, gigs and clubs. We appreciate that budgets are tight on such a course so we organize additional evening entertainments within the course fees. To date, a few examples of evenings out are; excursion to Verona to see the opera in Roman amphitheatre, supper up at the monastery of Fiesole, near Florence and an evening at the sixteenth century Fortezza in Florence, that is converted to a multiplex of restaurants, bars and nightclubs during the summer months.