Things they don’t tell you

Gap years are easy. They’re almost a lifestyle-choice now, a rite of passage. Career-breaks and sabbaticals are nothing special, and ‘Grown up gappers’ are a fast-growing group: travel companies have spotted the trend and are making the most of it.
What they don’t tell you is that it’s entirely different from planning your three [...]

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A map for Saturday

It’s almost official: I’ve had the verbal confirmation, the official form has been signed, and I’ll be finishing work on August 31st until September 2008. I still can’t tell colleagues yet and it’s killing me to be so vague and cryptic when they ask if I’ll be free in September to do something, but at [...]

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The writing habit

I’ve been looking at a lot of Blogs recently, some good, some not so good and some excellent ones. It’s so easy to set one up – much more difficult to keep one going. You can either write rubbish regularly or write only when you have something to say. Or wait until you have something [...]

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