Gap Year Features
Features for January 2012
Dan - A Different Volunteer
Dan Murray is a volunteer with a difference; he's only got one leg. We caught up with him and his amazing account of volunteering with orangutans in Borneo.
Off the Beaten Track
Here is Gapyear.com's Top 10 list of amazing places that are well visited in their own right, but often missed by travellers on their round the world trips.
Features for December 2011
5 Places to Spend New Year’s Eve
Once again it’s that time of year to party like its 1999 (or rather 2011). It’s only days until NYE and parties are being prepared world-wide. Where will you be spending it?
5 Free Things to Do in 5 Cities
Experienced gapper and travel writer Francesca Harper has found us five free things to do in five of the world's most expensive cities.
20 Travel Essentials for Xmas
Christmas is a great time to ask for those much needed travel essentials for your gap year. Here are out top 20 travel essentials so ho ho hope Father Christmas comes to visit you over Xmas.
It’s on the Meter
10 months, 41 countries, 30,000 miles and they're still going on the meter. We caught up with Paul Archer and the boys to see what they've been up to on their gap year.
Ask the Experts: Taking a Gap Year Q&A
On Tuesday 6 December gapyear.com and Round The World Experts took part in a live gap year Q&A on milkround.com. Here are the highlights of the web chat.
Features for November 2011
What Happened at the GY Meet-Up?
A little over a week ago the latest site meet-up took place in Birmingham. But who was there? What happened? Gapyear.com looks back over the course of the night.
8 Stops on Berlusconi’s Gap Year
After 17 years in power Silvio Berlusconi looks set to quit as prime minister and embark on a gap year. But where will he go? Gapyear.com looks at potential stops on his round the world trip.
Features for October 2011
Culture Competition Winner Interview
Last week we announced Alison Campbell was the winner of the site World Culture Competition. This week Gapyear.com finds out how she felt about winning and what she'll do with her prize.
How Do You Survive the Mongol Rally?
What would possess two gap year students to travel 10,000 miles across Europe and Asia in an old Nissan Micra? Gapyear.com spoke to some Mongol Rally survivors to find out.
30 Years of Overlanding Awesomeness
To celebrate Dragoman's 30th anniversary, gapyear.com pays homage to their independent and adventurous spirit by finding out what makes them - and overlanding in general - so cool.
Features for September 2011
Top 25 Rules of Taking a Gap Year
We asked gapyear.com members to come up with their rules of taking a gap year. We loved this list so much we've edited it down to our favourite 25 suggestions and made a feature out of it.
An Edinburgh Fringe Experience
Armed with only a camera, gapyear.com's webmaster Cormac Scanlan was dispatched to the Edinburgh Fringe to soak up and document as much arty, cultural festivalness as he could...
Notting Hill Carnival
Gapyear.com maverick Nii Lantey Bannerman has been living in the UK for the last couple of months exploring British Life. When we saw the Notting Hill Carnival was on, we sent him to London to check it out...
Features for August 2011
Taking a Redundancy Gap Year
Tom Corey was made redundant and decided to go travelling with the pay out. A week before he jets off, he explains to gapyear.com how he made redundancy work...
World Culture Competition
What is the ultimate music, arts and culture gap year? Tell us and you could win the flights to make it come true.
10 Reasons why Gapyear.com Rocks
Gapyear.com has re-launched and the site looks awesome. But what are the cool new features and improvements? Take a look at why the new site rocks...
The Gapyear.com Story
Tom Griffiths, Founder of gapyear.com, looks back at the creation and growth of the site that’s launched so many gap year dreams...
Features for July 2011
Meet the Tukkle Brothers
Why would two men spend their holiday dashing thousands of kilometres across India's sub-standard roads in an inappropriate vehicle on a mad adventure?
