Guide To Working Overseas
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 …
Category: Oyster Travel Kit Tips
Discover our top 10 Tips for travellers
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 …
How to pack for your volunteering holiday – tips from the experts
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 …
Top volunteer trip kit recommendations
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 …
Caxton cash card for Oyster participants
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 …
13 Tips for Travelling Solo
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 …
Kit review: LifeStraw
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 …
Top 5 things NOT to take travelling (trust me- I know!)
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 …
Kit Review: Cabin Max carry on luggage
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 …
Kit Review: ‘Water-to-Go’ Bottle
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 …
