Like many other students, my life in April and May consists of little more than writing essays and revising for exams. Except for last year when I took off to Sorrento for a week with Ollie's family and shamefully neglected my work in favour of walking around roman ruins and drinking prosecco at The Foreigners' Club. This year I am not so lucky and my wanderlust is at an all-time high. It takes all of my self control not to spend my precious study time researching trips online and in back-issues of travel magazines. The essays and exams are also largely responsible for the recent neglect of this blog, and today I received an email from the marketing department at Goldsmiths to inform me that it has been chosen as one of the featured blogs on their website, so I need to buck my ideas up a little...
The blogs are chosen to give new students a cross-section of 'student life' and I started thinking about how travel fits into this. Of course, most of the new students will have done some travelling already - with parents, friends or on the increasingly popular gap year - but there are more and more opportunities for travel during the three years of study. Of course, I'm not claiming that the meagre student loan and grant will stretch to a three-week, fully-guided safari in Botswana, but with a little imagination and a lot of research, affordable trips can be taken during the breaks from study. In my first summer vacation I visited Japan with two friends, in my second I backpacked through South East Asia and am currently planning a trip to Canada for my third, as well as going on short breaks to the USA, the Netherlands, Germany, Italy and France.
This is the time of year when students begin to start making plans for their summer and there are lots of wonderful trips out there which can fit in to the summer vacation and be done on a budget. I am off to research these now and will be posting them in the next few days. I just have to resist the urge to book any of them. Especially since I am dreaming of Beirut and the furthest I have ventured in the last few days is Brixton.
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