Why a Booktrail?
2000s: Would you be brave enough to become a mature student and go abroad?
Finishing Year
What you need to know before your trail
After three years working at his local university, Bryce Finlay , a 48-year-old Canadian single father with an unfinished university degree, decides to hit the books and go back to finish his degree and show his kids he never meant to be a dropout. His eldest has already quit high school, but is there still time to show the youngest one?
When his university contract ends, completing his long-delayed education in art history proves to be financially difficult, so he jumps at the chance to study – with the aid of a small scholarship – as an international exchange student in Europe.
Travel Guide
Germany and Europe
What follows is a life in a cramped student dorm in an industrial town in Germany that is – luckily – an ideal jumping off point for visiting the great art capitals of Europe.
Finley makes his way through his last year of university, the great museums of Europe, and the social fabrics of a handful of European countries, to emerge a wiser, more-educated, and potentially more-employable person. Starting in Mannheim, where he studies, this makes for a fine introduction the life of a older student as well as the art world!
Some places to visit:
Art Gallery in Stuttgart
Art gallery in Mannheim
The author is from Canada and as he travels around the art museums of Europe, he discovers much more about himself than he though and not just the paintings he has travelled to see.
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