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Now that We are all middle class graduates working in the fast moving world of Sales, Marketing, design and Advertising, it is safe to assume that every single person in ED took a gap year. The groaning bookshelves at the MIND shop have trav el guides a plenty - Australia & NZ being #1, Thailand #2, India #3, with Kosovo and Sierra Leone not present.


How was your gap year ? where did you you go with Mummy & Daddies money ?

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Did you discover yourself ?


How many Buddahs did you bring back ?


Did you meet people from other countries who broadned your mind, made you question your motives for the trip, gave you an insight into art and culture, or did you just meet a load of boastful 5ft 6 Kiwis with goatee beards?


Namaste

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Backpacked around the US and Europe. I'm Australian, so that was the thing to do. An absolutely brilliant time that arguably changed my life, as I'm still here 20 years later.


If you are going to 'do' Australia then spend most of your time outside the cities. Australian cities are boring (yes, Sydney, I'm looking at you). Out on the sticks is where you should be. I'd say get a job on a station in northern QLD or WA. That would be memorable!

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Loz Wrote:

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> If you are going to 'do' Australia then spend most

> of your time outside the cities. Australian

> cities are boring (yes, Sydney, I'm looking at

> you). Out on the sticks is where you should be.

> I'd say get a job on a station in northern QLD or

> WA. That would be memorable!



What, a railway station?

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Holloway (yes, that one) and a war zone with tanks.


Edited to say that the most I ever managed to get out of my parents was child benefit till I was 18 (accommodation, education, books 'n' that being in short supply it seemed), so I fed, watered and clothed myself from working from 13, provided my own tent to live in during my education etc. etc. Which may explain why all I ever want to do - as an adult - is party.

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Salsaboy Wrote:

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> Loz Wrote:

> > I'd say get a job on a station in northern QLD or

> > WA. That would be memorable!


> What, a railway station?


Sigh. No. And not a bus station. Or a petrol station. Or the space station, even.


But maybe it could be http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Station_%28Australian_agriculture%29


Sometimes the ED Forum is soooo educational.

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When I was 18 I flew Laker to LA with ?100 ( a bit more in those days) got a job in a boatyard in San Diego and then criss-crossed accross the US on Greyhounds to New York. 7 months when the US was different, wild and still full of real inner city decay I loved it. Nowadays it's like East Dulwich but safer


5 years ago the missus and me did a RTW trip over 6 months - the SE Asia bit we were surrounded by pampered middle class students, reading The Da Vinci Code and on the internet their mobiles to mummy and daddy every night staying in 'resort hostels' and dancing to Kylie at the laughably 18-30 Full Moon party at Hat Rin...it really is travelling lite, no different than going down to Brighton nowadays, but probbaly safer.


Pah, Gap years.....

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