One of my favourite excuses for escaping from London is to go and help out with courses at the Blackden Trust. The Trust gives school students the opportunity to come and learn about archaeology, history and geography, working with leading academics in these fields and hopefully contributing to the ongoing process of research on this part of Cheshire:

http://theblackdentrust.org.uk/

This is a link to my blog where you will find details of all classes and workshops

Hi,
If you love art and culture why not write short reviews of things that you see and experience? If you are interested check out the indie arts site The Flaneur. You don't need to be professional writer, just have bags of enthusiasm.

Go on, have a go!

The Flaneur
http://www.flaneur.me.uk

Late Season deals on Art & Yoga Holidays this October in Rudnik near Burgas in Bulgaria

Rudnik_Flyer.pdf

Languedoc-Midi.info is an Anglophone business directory listing course providers in the Languedoc- Roussillon region in the South of France.

Bruegel, Flemish painter from sixteenth century, painted about 60 pictures of mostly peasant life. Big colourful and lively pictures, but what are not so well known are his drawings and engravings.
I have taken some of them and painted in the colour scheme that I imagine Bruegel might have chosen, in order to make them more accessable.
His interests in his society were as wide ranging as Shakespeare's.