Wind back two weeks and I would have gladly told you that “volunteering to protect turtles on the beaches of Costa Rica is an incredible way to ensure the future…
The Back to Budget Basics!
How to follow on from a post about my (very nearly) budget-busting all-inclusive summer holiday in the Maldives? Well, considering we’re nearing the end of the year and holiday allowance/spare…
Losing my all-inclusive virginity (…in style)
This Summer I challenged the habit of a lifetime by shirking the wing-and-a-prayer-holiday (read blagging your way around a foreign country with your fingers crossed!) and heading on an all-inclusive,…
How to Choose a Gap Year: A Buyers Guide!
Google ‘gap years’ (as I do….ALOT!) and you will find yourself entering the sometimes shady but always inspirational world of overseas volunteering. Hundreds of different and equally worthy looking NGO’s,…
Why The 2010 UK University Admissions Debacle may be the Best Thing to Happen to Gap Years in….Years!
Those of you living outside the UK may have missed the ‘media storm’ surrounding the woefully shrunken economy and the effect it’s having on University admissions this summer but for…
Alice Adventure’s in a Venezuelan Wonderland: Pt. 3
Day 7: Well here I am again, back on one of the world’s most beautiful beaches learning Spanish from a local teacher whilst sunning myself, cerveza in hand. It’s a…
Alice’s adventures in a Venezuelan Wonderland, Part 2.
Day 4: Well it’s been Bye Bye beaches and Hola hilltops & coffee haciendas the past two days as we’ve left the comfy confines of Playa Colorada behind for the…
Alice’s Adventures in a Venezuelan Wonderland, Part One
Those of you who read my last blog will be aware that after muchos hours in airports, muchos missed flights and muchos muchos miscommunication I FINALLY found myself in sunny…
A short history of travel disasters
So, as you may be aware I am a girl in possession of very possibly the BEST TRAVEL JOB EVER. Working for Gap Year organisation The Leap, I am basically…