Planning, Keeping Safe and Working During Your Gap Year

Helping You Plan A Great Gap Year...

Gap years continue to enjoy great popularity in the UK. Whether these years are spent in the UK or abroad, in volunteer placements or travelling for pleasure, they require a great deal of research and planning, not to mention care while travelling, to ensure that they go well. So if you're planning one, make your gap year one to remember with our information on where to stay, what to do and what to take with you.

April's Most Popular Articles...

Hitch-Hiking and the Dangers: When faced with little money, dodgy bus timetables and a schedule to keep, what's a gap year student to do but hitchhike, right? Wrong! Though hitchhiking… [226 views in Apr]
Questionnaire: Postpone Education for a Gap Year?: Whether or not to take a gap year is a very personal decision. You may be considering it for a number of reasons, but if you… [140 views in Apr]
Taking out a Loan to Fund Your Gap Year: If you’ve tried your hardest and still come up short don’t worry, plenty of young adults are unable to fund the gap years that they have been… [102 views in Apr]
Drinking Water Abroad: The golden rule of drinking water abroad is "when in doubt - don't." Don't drink any tap water that you have not specifically confirmed is safe for human… [64 views in Apr]
Benefits of Doing a Gap Year: After all of the struggles to pass exams and build a future, many students think it would be madness to defer it all for a year and spend time doing… [40 views in Apr]
Au Pair Jobs: Many gap year travellers, mainly females although more recently males as well, choose to work their way around the world as an au pair to help pay for their expenses. Au pairs… [38 views in Apr]