News for December 2012
It’s the end of the world
If you're reading this then it's the end of the world and you're already dead. We're sorry that you had to find out like this but it's the cold hard truth.
Lattitude celebrates its 40th anniversary
International youth development charity Lattitude Global Volunteering celebrates its 40th anniversary and this year they also sent their 40,000th volunteer.
Crocodile jumps on backpacker
While backpacking you're going to get up close to the local wildlife. Well one traveller in Australia got more than he bargained for as a crocodile takes a death-leap at him.
The world’s unfriendliest cities revealed
The world's rudest, unfriendliest and dirtiest cities have been named and only Moscow beat London to the number one spot as the unfriendliest city in the world.
Boy plays with beaver
Little Ryan was at Oregon Zoo in the United States with his mum when he started waving at a beaver. Nothing in that apart from the fact that the beaver starts waving back.
Win Your New Year’s Eve Bar Tab on gapyear.com!
Not long now until New Year's Eve. Win our daily competition to win £100 by 31st December 2012 and we'll help to make it the best one yet!
Man travels 24,000km in search of the best banger
John Gledson is travelling with a purpose. He's tried more than 400 varieties of sausage around the world, and there's no sign of stopping any time soon.
Instagram Vs Twitter: The fight of the photo filters
Have you noticed that your Instagram pics aren't previewing correctly on Twitter anymore, and what's with the new Twitter photo filter update?
Cook Islands competition winners
It was a very tough decision but our Cook Islands competition winners have been revealed. Here are the two lucky people going to the Cook Islands for two weeks.
