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Hart Travel Partners (HTP) provides fully customized, faculty-led short-term travel programs. We partner with educational institutions to turn course curricula into academic-centered global itineraries designed to instruct and inspire. We believe that travel can be as meaningful an investment in the future as education.
Sitting in the second row of the stadium, my father and I were surrounded by 2,000 passionate football fans, engrossed in a nil-nil match and exposed to a colorful array of East London language.
It was Torquay United F.C. vs. Dagenham & Redbridge F.C. in the Dagenham district of East London. On my recent trip to London over New Year’s, I accompanied my dad to the match to watch Torquay, a lower-level club he’s supported since he was a young boy.
Now, this is not Liverpool, Manchester United or my beloved Arsenal; this is not the Premier League. This is not even the second or third level of English football. This is the fifth tier of the pyramid—known as the National League. I spent my formative years in London, my parents still live there and I visit London a few times a year, but I had never experienced a fifth-tier football match before.
It’s the sort of cultural immersion experience you don’t get by visiting only the usual tourist spots or by driving by in a sightseeing bus. It’s the sort of experience you have to see—and hear—to appreciate.
Read more ..."Hart was willing to customize our itinerary for design students, arranging two great studio visits and providing us with a fantastic tour director who managed all the trip logistics brilliantly." - Elizabeth S
Photos by © Ben Glass - Arizona State University, © Penny Ann Dolin - Arizona State University, © Chad Westover - Arizona State University, Ilene Periman, Clara Soraya, Holly Straub, and Steve Hart.
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