Gap Year Guides are now out

As the exam results are due any day now (or could have just come out), many broadcast are thinking about going off to university or college.

Students often choose to have a gap year before moving onto possibility education and maybe this year because of the depression will place off their studies and head off to Asia, Africa or South America.

Others have by now graduated and never took a gap year and are thinking about this as they hope the job market will improve in the next twelve months.
Wherever you are thinking of going make sure you are properly equipped for the journey.
Many broadcast take their mobile phones with them. but buy sim cards locally and let their family know by email their contact number. Phone cards are another option and so are service like Sykpe via an internet cafe. It is excellent to touch base with your family at least once a week by phone or email. A fantastic way of storing your travel photos is to load them onto Facebook. This way you can share them with your friends and family and fellow travellers. The photos will be stored on the Facebook server and it is also a excellent thought to any post home a cd back up or low-cost memory stick every so often as the size of the photos stored on Facebook are not too large.
Before you set off scan or photo copy your passport, credit cards etc and leave these details with your family and also all your insurance details. You never know when you might be unlucky and have your possesions stolen and if this does has happen your family can often help with sorting out the problem.
Don’t take too much cash with you, but rely on ATM cash machines, but in some countries the machines can run out of cash quickly. Make sure you keep some of your money hidden as you could be vulnerable in broadcast places.
Plot ahead using the Internet for youth inn information and with many of these you can book in advance. Everlastingly try and keep well within the budget you have set.
One small useful tip is buy a “wind up torch”. You don’t need to rely on having to buy new batteries, just a small winding exercise from time to time.
Don’t take too much reading material, naturally you will need your handbook books, but when it comes to books to read, the gap year travelling community just keeps on swopping books. The book you left Southhampton with could easily tour Africa quicker than you would.
The most vital expenditure will be your Travel Insurance, jml insurance.co.uk acts as introducer agents to several providers of “rambler insurance” products for Direct Travel, Essential Travel and Endsleigh.  Whatever you don’t forget that insurance.

Philip Suter is a Director of jml Property Services; http://www.jmlproperty.co.uk a UK based company offering Insurance products on line at http://www.jml-insurance.co.uk and a holiday home advertising service and management training within the UK. He is a very experienced property consultant with over 30 years work in the Residential letting business in the UK and served on the National Council of ARLA. He is a Fellow of the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) and a Member of The association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA)

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