Working overseas in a foreign country is a unique and enriching experience. It allows you to get a good perspective of a country which is new to you and exposes you to a whole different lifestyle and culture. You may…
Travelling is a fantastic lifestyle, where new experiences and places are seen everyday. It allows your horizons to broaden, understanding of different cultures to flourish, as well as a perfect opportunity for that Instagram snap! Here are our top 10…
Packing for a holiday can be exciting, but also a little bit stressful, particularly when travelling to an unfamiliar destination. Here are some of our tips about what to pack for your volunteering holiday, and how to pack it. Basic…
I have recently returned from Ecuador where I was visiting four new volunteer projects. Before I went, the team at Gap Year Travel Store were kind enough to recommend some great items which would be really useful for my travels….
Oyster has set up a new partnership with Caxton FX to bring our participants the prepaid cash card, the latest way to take money abroad. These are the modern day equivalent to traveller’s cheques and are a fantastic, safe way to take…
When planning their gap year trips many people worry about travelling solo; will I get lonely? Will I get bored? What if I get lost? We’ve compiled a list of our top tips for making the most of travelling on…
At the end of last year our friends over at the Gap Year Travel Store sent us a LifeStraw (a different water purification method) to test. Desperate to try it out, we couldn’t wait until our next trip overseas so tested…
You’re going away for a long period of time. If you’re like me, when it comes to packing it’s always better to be safe than sorry; you never know what you’re going to need so why not just take everything…
Over the years I have tried rucksacks, small hard shell suitcases and wheely soft cases. None of them maximised the cabin baggage allowance and most were not easy to live out of if you needed to. None of them looked…
For my recent trip to Tanzania, our good friends at the Gap Year Travel Store sent me a new water bottle to test in Africa, the Water-to-Go bottle. It’s a sports bottle with a great added feature – a water…
