paul mcgarrity

When most people think of holidays, they think of a planned vacation, ie, you know where you'll be staying, what you'll be doing and who you'll be doing it with. While this is nice, sometimes life can't be wrapped in such a neat little package. Enter last-minute holidays.

They can be just as fun and exciting because they add a dash of adventure, which is ideal for spicing up a static routine.

To get to Tuscany from Ireland is a short plane ride and what you gain is an experience that will last you a lifetime.

Tuscany from Ireland: Medieval Splendor with Modern Appeal

Tuscany is one of central Italy's most majestic regions. Divided into nine provinces, it is often referred to as a charmed land because it is richly blessed with man-made beauty like the Renaissance art of Botticelli, Michelangelo and da Vinci.

There's an idiomatic expression that goes, "You have to know your past in order to understand your future." Because Africa gave the world human civilization, Egypt holidays are ideal for discovering much about mankind.

Egypt Holidays: Where Culture Explodes Around You

Africa has blessed historians with a contiguous line of human development that goes back some 7 million years.