The 5 Best Things About a Year Abroad

March 9, 2010

Spending a year abroad either as part of your studies or as part of a gap year can throw up its fair share of problems, but it also has amazing benefits that far outweigh any obstacles that may be put in your path. After all, you chose to do this for a reason! Here are [...]

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The Five Worst Things About a Year Abroad

March 2, 2010

Every year thousands of students spend a year overseas as part of their degree. As a language student myself, I am currently writing this from the staffroom of a high school in Valencia, Spain, where I’m working as part of my own year abroad. I spent the last six months living and going to university [...]

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The World’s Most Extravagant Hotels

February 23, 2010

In these credit crunch times, the majority of us mere mortals find ourselves forced to resort to finding ways to cut costs everyday. Those of us who are lucky enough to be able to afford a holiday are likely using budget airlines and staying in a hotel ranked three stars or less. This is our [...]

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10 Places to Get Married

February 15, 2010

It’s the most special day of your life, so why not say your vows in the most special location you can find? Here are a few suggestions, in no particular order of enchantment:

1. Tobago
If you see yourselves tying the knot in the glorious sunshine of a tropical paradise, with crystal turquoise waters lapping an opulently [...]

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10 of the Best Ski Gadgets from Around the World

February 8, 2010

While many of us dream of escaping to sunnier climates, especially when the weather is as wintry as it has been over the past month, others welcome the winter season. Those who are sport-minded view the snow as the perfect excuse to dust the skis off and head off on a skiing holiday. Now, it [...]

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The Worst Diseases You Might Get on Holiday

February 1, 2010

WARNING: This article contains graphic descriptions of utterly gross illness. You have been warned.
Most of us have experienced a touch of ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’ on at least one holiday in the past, and it’s an illness most of us would prefer not to remember. If you think that violent stomach cramps and torrential diarrhoea are amongst [...]

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The Highlights of Saigon

January 25, 2010

Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City, is the largest city in Vietnam and the country’s chief business centre. It’s populous, frenetically busy and filled with noise (and motorcycles, especially during rush-hour) but it has a curiously enchanting friendliness to it, moreso than Hanoi. The city centre is also classically elegant, with its broad promenades and [...]

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Which is Better - Facebook or Twitter?

January 18, 2010

300 million users collectively spend more than 8 billion minutes on Facebook, every day. 8 billion minutes is a difficult figure to take in. That’s roughly 15,220 years. If you took 75 years to be the average human lifespan, that is 200 entire lifetimes. Lifetimes expended updating status messages, tagging photos, tending virtual farms and [...]

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Which Countries Are the Safest In the World?

January 11, 2010

There is something very The Day, Today about the following sentence: ‘The results of the Global Peace Index for 2009 suggest that the world has become slightly less peaceful in the past year’. This is because ‘Rapidly rising unemployment, pay freezes and falls in the value of house prices, savings and pensions is causing popular [...]

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The Weirdest Travel-Related Things You Can Rent

January 4, 2010

Renting travel gear is increasing in popularity. With the help of the internet, travellers can find even some of the most unusual things to rent. If you can think of it, chances are you will be able to find somebody that is willing to rent it. From homes to iPhones, renting can be very useful.
Renting [...]

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