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  • What Gapyear.com Did For Me

    "Gapyear.com have made me realise want I really want to do and have inspired me to travel across the whole of Europe..."

  • Kenya vs. England - Why I'm not coming home...

    "I've been living in Mombasa, Kenya for over one month now as a volunteer teacher and I'm head over heels in love with the place..."

  • Road trip on the Garden Route

    "When I started chatting travel to three Dutch girls in Khayelitsha, South Africa, I never expected they would adopt me for an adventure road trip..."



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The great roller coaster ride in the sky

The great roller coaster ride in the sky

They call it 'the great roller coaster ride in the sky'. Despite rolling and tumbling to the ground at 80 mph in a two-seater Tiger Moth plane, I couldn’t have felt more alive.

Gapyear.com on the Gold Coast

Gapyear.com on the Gold Coast

Some people say that Australia has a more relaxed, slower pace of life. Sounds like a cliché, doesn't it? Macca Sherifi thinks he's discovered why that is.


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A Bit of Aussie Banter

"Throw another shrip on the barbie mate!" Aussie's don't actually say that. How do we know? Because Carla Burton has given us some tips on how to learn the lingo.

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Watching Lions on the Gold Coast

We're sending our travel editor Macca Sherifi to the shores of the Gold Coast in Australia to follow a pack of Lion's. Make sure you follow us for live up-to-date coverage.


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Photographing Lightning

We've always wanted to take those amazing lightning shots on our travels. Now we can after Luke Plastow's given his hints & tips on how to shoot lightning in a storm.

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12 Amazing Places in the UK

These places just don't look like they belong in the UK, but as all of them are beautiful and amazing in some way or another we’ll happily accept them.


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