Recess isn't just for schoolchildren anymore. Adults nowadays are starting to take recesses from work to travel the world, oftentimes with famiIy in tow.
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When I was seven years old, I took a six-month sabbatical. Well, technically, my father took a six-month sabbatical from his job in academia, but he towed the family along for the adventure. We traipsed around Europe in a Volkswagen minibus, the three kids wearing our matching Hush Puppies (very practical) and plastic rain ponchos (très chic), while staying mostly in hotels with the star rating of fleabag.
In that sense, the trip would hardly be considered luxurious by today's standards. But we are talking about a very different era. While no need to specify the exact year of the trip, let's just say that our family was way ahead of the sabbatical curve, and that any six-month le
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