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This section carries news articles of interest to visitors to Mind The Gap Year website visitors. It includes details if general interest to gap year or backpacker travellers, and also the occassional "NEWSFLASH" item that we feel is important to impart to you... so do keep an eye on this part of the site...

What do you want to achieve on your gap year?

What do you want to achieve on your gap year? Planning your gap year, you realise just how diverse and exciting the world is. And it is all out there waiting for you. African jungles, Latin American

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Considering a language course for your gap year?

Here are five great options from E.S.L:- Learning a second language during your gap year means you can make that time off really count for something. Travelling the world, meeting new people and trying

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Mind The Gap Year & MPI Brokers back in Flaine to sponsor British Schoolgirls’ Races

Ski and travel insurance specialist MPI Brokers and its sister company Mind The Gap Year are back at Flaine in the French Alps this week for the companies’ sixth successive sponsorship of the annual

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2012 Schools Sailing Championships

Schools Sailing Championships Diamond Jubilee Year - Itchenor Sailing Club Sponsored by Mind The Gap Year Click here to see the gallery 27th-29th June 2012 It's that time of year again where the end

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Naked hiking banned in Switzerland

What do you think gappers? Would you go naked hiking in your gap year or have you? Naked hiking has become a popular pastime in Switzerland, especially with German naturalists. A ruling from

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