Backpacking: alone, with friends or with a boy/girlfriend?
This is one of the first questions you come across as you plan a gap year or backpacking trip. Backpacking alone – For girls For most girls the answer to this […]
Postcard of the Week: Ha Long Bay
Halong Bay is off the north-east coast of Vietnam and is made up of 1,960–2,000 limestone islets, and it’s name in Sino-Vietnamese means “descending dragon”, due to its appearance: the […]
Guest Post: A Student’s Guide To Skiing
Olivia Stuart-Taylor weighs up the benefits of skiing on a trip organised by a University Imagine this: 1500 Durham University students, one resort, one week, three metres 3m of […]
Postcard of the Week: Florence
Italy is the fifth most-touristed country in the world and had an enormous 46.1 million international visitors in 2011, nearly as many as its population of 61 million people. Florence […]
Postcard of the Week: Greek Islands
Greece has around 6,000 individual islands, each surrounded by the clear, warm water of the Mediterranean Sea and each enjoying pretty much guaranteed sunshine all summer long. While Greece boasts […]
The Gap Year
On a personal note, of all my 22 years, my gap year was by far the best. Recently that status has been rocked by how much I also loved my […]
Living Abroad as a Graduate
University has finished and friends are either flocking to London or back to their home towns. The student lifestyle of lie-ins and copious free time is now but a memory […]
Postcard of the Week: Paris
A slightly unconventional angle of the iconic Eiffel Tower in Paris, built in 1889. Since then a whopping 250 million people have visited the tower. Also beautiful during the daytime, […]
The Well-Travelled Postcard 