Student Times Gap Year: Planning

Gap Year First Time Travelers Guide

Traveling is unbelievably exciting but can be very scary if it’s your first time, so we’ve come up with some helpful hints to make your first time traveling as hassle free and as easy to organise as possible

Posted: 30/10/07

Essential Travel Package for Gap Year Students

Leading direct travel insurance provider, Essential Travel has unveiled its gap year travel insurance prices for 2007. With warning that students on tight budgets could find themselves paying in excess of £260 more than necessary for their travel cover.

Posted: 07.06.07

Put something back this Summer- Volunteer!

Summer break can be long and boring, waiting to come back to uni to party, party and of course some all important work!
Why not try something different this summer and volunteer with WorldWide Volunteering.

WorldWide Volunteering (WWV) is a non profit making organisation designed to help people of all ages get involved with volunteering and find a placement which suits them. WWV’s online database has recently been made free for all to use from the website (www.wwv.org.uk) with joint funding from V and the Vodafone UK Foundation.

Posted: 23.04.07

Gap Year First Time Travelers Guide

Traveling is unbelievably exciting but can be very scary if it's your first time, so we've come up with some helpful hints to make your first time traveling as hassle free and as easy to organise as possible

There are always questions you will need answered, so read on and we may just be able to put your mind at rest.

Posted 12.02.07

Gap year Q&A

Q&As answered by Tom Griffiths, founder of www.gapyear.com

Posted 11.02.07

Top to Tips

Get the info from those who've been there - done that and got the the shirt.

Posted 11.02.07

Passports and visas

You will need a full ten year passport if you want to travel abroad. Depending on which country you visit, and your reason for travelling, you may also need to get a visa

Posted 12.02.07

Which book for the backpack?

The perhaps oversubscribed publishing genre that is travel guides gets a thorough seeing to with Student Times’… err… guide

Aargh! You’ve decided to go to Swaziland on that much-needed break, but aren’t sure what language they speak or what the currency is. So what are you going to do?
You could go on the internet to try and find small particles of information on different websites. Or you could buy a travel guide which includes everything you’d ever need to know on that country. But when you get to the bookshop, you’re confronted with a multitude of different ranges! So which are best? Read on to find out the best of the bunch and start planning that trip

posted 10.02.07

Insurance just seems like one more cost, right?

But it may be your most important possession when you get mugged in Melbourne, robbed in Rio or pick-pocketed in Peking.

Posted 09.02.07

To answer 'How much is too much?'

Essentials Personal Clothing Winter Medical Optional Camping Don't Think So's

Don't take everything listed here. If you can't afford it, can't find it, or have to think too hard you probably don't need it.

Posted 09.02.07