Trip of a lifetime

Booking and organising a gap year can be done at any of Birmingham's handy and helpful travel agents. Students get very good deals at places like STA Travel where they have been catering to the requirements of gap year students for many years. The question is where do you go and what's on offer?

It's a bit of a cliché, but the world is your oyster. You can create a break as cheap or as expensive as you wish.

For example, you might want to go backpacking around Europe using the Inter-Rail pass. This pass allows you to travel by train to a myriad of exciting towns and cities, stopping off where you want and when you want. This is a very popular option during summer and quite cheap too.

If you're feeling a bit more flush, then how about an adventure down under? There are thousands of students visiting Australia every year to have the holiday of a lifetime.

What many students do is club together to buy an old banger or camper van and drive as far around Oz as possible, having a fantastic time in places like Cairns, Brisbane, Sydney and Perth. Just ask for ideas at one of the travel agents in Birmingham.