Classical Pursuits - Travel Adventures for the Mind with World's Best Books, Art and Music as Your Guides

The Road Less Travelled: Caminho Português
Porto, Portugal to Santiago, Spain
April 2018
SOLD OUT!

The Caminho Portuguese is a fantastic route for those looking for a more rural experience. We will gather in Porto, the colourful city that is home to port wine. For the next 10 days we walk to Santiago along a mix of coastal, forest and open countryside trails.
NO MERE DISCORD OF FLAGS: ENGLISH POETS OF WWI
Belgium and France
May 2018

Through seminars, presentations, and extensive time in the field, this Travel Pursuit will immerse you into the everyday lived experience of soldiers, nurses, ambulance drivers, and others. It is a unique way to put the massive scope of WWI on a human scale.
TORONTO PURSUITS
Toronto
JULY 2018

Culture meets conversation at our annual salon in the sun. In this 20th edition of Toronto Pursuits, we’re offering seminars on fiction, epic poetry, music, painting, history, psychology, and more. Join us for a week of reading, discussion, food, friendship, and fun.
Coming Full Circle
The Name of the Rose in Central Italy
October 2018
THREE SPOTS LEFT!

On this journey to central Italy, we’re reprising our very first trip. We can think of no better setting in which to read Eco’s novel than the beautifully preserved towns and cities that line Italy’s Adriatic coast and dot the hills of the Apennines.
Conflict and Compromise
Hammering Out a Republic in Philadelphia
October 2018

In the summer of 1787, long-simmering tensions based on region, race and religion threatened hopes for “a more perfect union.” Somehow, conflicts were (mostly) resolved, compromises reached and 13 independent states united into a single nation. That “somehow” will be the focus of our time in history-rich Philadelphia.
Magic Mountains
Literature, Culture and Coffee in Colombia
November 2018

Geographic and cultural diversity has given Colombia a rich literary heritage, from the legend of Yurupari to a lively contemporary fiction scene. Our focus will be magic realism, writing that blurs the line between what we perceive as reality and what lies in the supernatural realm—what Salman Rushdie calls “magic […]

Travel Adventures for the Mind
with The world's best books, art and music as Your guides

The Road Less Travelled: Caminho PortuguêsPorto, Portugal to Santiago, SpainApril 2018SOLD OUT!

NO MERE DISCORD OF FLAGS: ENGLISH POETS OF WWIBelgium and FranceMay 2018

TORONTO PURSUITSTorontoJULY 2018

Coming Full CircleThe Name of the Rose in Central ItalyOctober 2018THREE SPOTS LEFT!

Conflict and CompromiseHammering Out a Republic in PhiladelphiaOctober 2018

Magic MountainsLiterature, Culture and Coffee in ColombiaNovember 2018

The Road Less Travelled: Caminho Português
Porto, Portugal to Santiago, Spain
April 2018
SOLD OUT!

NO MERE DISCORD OF FLAGS: ENGLISH POETS OF WWI
Belgium and France
May 2018

TORONTO PURSUITS
Toronto
JULY 2018

Coming Full Circle
The Name of the Rose in Central Italy
October 2018
THREE SPOTS LEFT!

Conflict and Compromise
Hammering Out a Republic in Philadelphia
October 2018

Magic Mountains
Literature, Culture and Coffee in Colombia
November 2018