Villetelle, France
About 7 years ago, Les & I started our summer with a week in Rome. We spent the whole winter before getting ready for our Roman immersion: read books, watched the TV series "Rome" (bravissimo!), listened to tapes, etc. And while we were in Rome, we did 4 tours with Context travel, whose guides are art historians or architects or someone with a very in-depth knowledge of the city's history. We were totally hooked. I became especially interested in Augustus, th...