Fighting Fit

Win a fitness package worth more than £3,000

Navigation - link to other main sections from here

Skip Navigation

From Times Online
October 11, 2007

5 classic Gap Year features

One of our trio of Family Travel experts plucks her favourite gap travel advice features from the collection

Emma Mahony

For dozens more articles on gap travel, voluntourism and career breaks, go to our Gap Travel section

1. Tips for Gap Year Travel - Clare Francis offers advice on how best to find funds, travel money and insurance when preparing for the Gap Year.

2. Gap Year? Get organised - Tom Chesshyre reports on a new website that offers overseas projects, jobs and activities for forthcoming Gap Year Students.

3. Join the Debate: gap year advice - Times Online readers offer their best gap year websites, books and planning tips for a forthcoming gap year student.

4. Stay Safe on your gap year - Tanya Hubbard, safety and security officer for the gap year charity The Project Trust offers ten tips for those travelling overseas

5. Young Travellers set out to mind the gap - Sam Coates reports on a three-day course to help would-be globetrotters prepare for the year ahead.

Have your say

* Required

Travel Search

Destinations

Skip Destinations
World Map
Europe Europe Middle East Asia South East Asia Australasia Africa Latin America North America CaribbeanCarribean
Select
Africa
Asia
Australasia
Caribbean
Europe
Latin America
Middle East
North America
South East Asia

Holiday Type

Skip Holiday Type


Travel comment    

richard lloyd parry

open quote mark Ancient Egypt, Napoleonic crisis, the birth of modern war: all condensed in a few square yards of space near the Thames close quote mark

More...
Richard Lloyd Parry

best read features

traveller

Guard lying on bed infront of ruins, Syria

Be inspired: exclusive gallery by Gusov

British hotel reviews - search maps

Travel Images   

open quote mark I've done four of the driving holidays you mention and you've missed off Vancouver to Banff through the Rockies - blows the socks off them all open quote mark

More...
Richard Hughes, Bangor

We've answered your Top 10 questions on...

Inside Travel

Travel Directory

Search for a holiday

e.g. Villa in Tuscany

Focus Zone

Need to Know

Need to Know

Industry sectors news at a glance. Interactive heatmap, video and podcast

Social Entrepreneurs

Social Entrepreneurs:

The inside track on current trends in the charity, not for profit and social enterprise sectors

James Bond

James Bond:

Read our exclusive 100 Years of Fleming and Bond interactive timeline, packed with original Times articles and reviews

business travel

Business Travel:

Everything the Business Traveller needs to know to make a better trip

previous next

Classifieds 

Cars

Skip Cars of the Week

Saab 9-3

05/2005
£13,500

Bentley Continental

08/2008
£109,950

Mini Cooper

2006
£10,750

Car insurance

Great car insurance deals online


Jobs

Skip Jobs of the Week
Director of systems development - server based gaming industry

£Excellent+ executive benefits
Torres and Partners
London

Head of International Programme

£49,229 - £62,035 pro rata
Charity Commission
London/Liverpool/Taunton

Project Director (m/f)


Alstom Power
Europe

Director Roles

Six Figure
Rolls Royce
Midlands/Europe

Properties

Rushmore Condo's New Luxury Condo's In Manhattan

Great Investment, River Views

Holidays

Skip Travel of the Week

Be the first to stay

At the new sophisticated
Encore Las Vegas Resort!

Funway Holidays Int Inc

Cruise the Islands of Hawaii - Pride of America


Advertise your holiday property online

List your property with two leading travel websites


Travel insurance

Great travel insurance deals online


Place your advert now