But, as I discovered over New Year, there is a more frugal alternative - get yourself to a monastery.
It is even willing to correct mistakes that it didn't make, as I discovered over Christmas.
I discovered over the summer that QuestBridge offers full four-year scholarships — including tuition, room and board — to "high-achieving low-income students".
There is, I discovered over the years, a curious innocence about Lazar, despite his cynical exterior — a romanticism that comes to the surface by fits and starts.
There is, I discovered over the years, a curious innocence about Lazar, despite his cynical exterior a romanticism that comes to the surface by fits and starts.
The Slovak capital also offers similar, Central European charm (rich history, unusual local flavors, stunning architecture and vibrant restaurants and night life) as I discovered over the course of a weekend there this winter.
This cultured country lodge also boasted an excellent and generous kitchen, as I discovered over a dinner of salted eel, lentil soup, lake-caught bass, and a potato and dill salad soused in the family's own olive oil.
Still, as I discovered over the course of a few days last fall, trying to retrace some of her narrative, her world has largely survived 75 years of near-constant upheaval.
"However, once I stepped into Kurt's archive, I discovered over 200 hours of unreleased music and audio, a vast array of art projects (oil paintings, sculptures), countless hours of never-before-seen home movies and over 4,000 pages of writings that together help paint an intimate portrait of an artist who rarely revealed himself to the media".
What I discovered over the next six days was nearly the full bounty of Europe packed into a succinct swath of mountains, lakes and Adriatic coastline, topped off by the gorgeous and entirely cosmopolitan capital of Ljubljana, where that river and those plazas mingle.
