New year, new plans - how about a gap year?

January is the month for rethinking your life, making plans for the future and deciding which way you want to go.  This planning might be about small things but it could include taking a year out.

Gap Years - The Essential Guide by Emma Jayne Jones gives you all you need to know about planning a successful time away.  Emma Jayne has travelled in over 40 countries and she knows what is necessary for the Big Trip.  The book covers how you can fund your time away, deciding where to go, volunteering, working and sightseeing - and the problems of settling back when you get home.

So if the new year blues have meant you are rethinking your life, pick up a copy of Gap Years and start planning the trip of a lifetime.  Like Emma Jayne, you could do volunteer work in South America, drive across the USA or hitchhike to Morocco - and do it safely!  Read the book, plan the trip - and have a great 2010!