huncamunca Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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 ? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
katie1997 Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Whitstable. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442032 Share on other sites More sharing options...
huncamunca Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442033 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankito Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Old Kent Road. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442036 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankito Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I think ED needs a Gap. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442038 Share on other sites More sharing options...
nashoi Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I was going to go to Whitstable, but felt that it was in danger of becoming over developed and as a 'traveller' rather than a tourist, I seek to tread lightly, so went to Hastings instead. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442039 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 spent it drinking cider and selling bags of dried oregano to grammar school sixth formers outside the Wimpy bar Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442040 Share on other sites More sharing options...
huncamunca Posted June 4, 2011 Author Share Posted June 4, 2011 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 Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442041 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Speak for your feckin self. I ain't any class and I certainly never went to University. Gap year my arse. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442042 Share on other sites More sharing options...
maxxi Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Frankito Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> I think ED needs a Gap.maybe if a Waitrose was to open they could incorporate a little Gap - though as it's ED perhaps they could call it Hiatus? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442044 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moos Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Didn't go, was desperate to become independent. Wish I had though - the chances of doing any proper travelling before retirement are looking pretty slim now. Hey ho. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442051 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hibbs Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I didn't have a gap year as such. I started work at 16 saved my pennies and took a year out to travel Australia just before my 20th Birthday...I can honestly say it was the best year of my life...so far :-) Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442053 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Frankito Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 I did a gap year of sorts. As part of my third and some of my fourh year I spent them in Spain and Portugal teaching English. Undoubtedly the best times of my life..... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442059 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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! Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442066 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brendan Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 London. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442115 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Townleygreen Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Mummy and Daddy had no money, so no gap year for me! :-( Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442119 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salsaboy Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Loz Wrote:------------------------------------------------------- > 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? Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442125 Share on other sites More sharing options...
aspidistra Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442146 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted June 4, 2011 Share Posted June 4, 2011 Salsaboy Wrote:-------------------------------------------------------> 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. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442169 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Medic Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 You could have said a big farm. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salsaboy Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 Ah I see, all the sheep you can shag. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442264 Share on other sites More sharing options...
???? Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 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 safer5 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..... Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442311 Share on other sites More sharing options...
huncamunca Posted June 5, 2011 Author Share Posted June 5, 2011 There were no gap years before I started at the university of life. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
StraferJack Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 and look at you now - all happy and shit Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loz Posted June 5, 2011 Share Posted June 5, 2011 You could have said a big farm.I could have. But I assumed a level of competence.Ah I see, all the sheep you can shag.Cattle, actually. So, you'll need to bring a step ladder. Link to comment https://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/topic/17665-gap/#findComment-442436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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