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  • What are this year's hottest travel-themed gifts? Find out in The Career Break Site's first ever Holiday Gift Guide, full of ideas for your travel-deprived loved ones, including you!
    Posted on: 10 November 2020
  • A collection of all of the cultural posts we shared to make quarantine a little easier in April, the culture month of The Career Break Site's 20/20 Travel Project.
    Posted on: 3 May 2020
  • How to turn an 88% chance of failure into a 70% chance of success
    Posted on: 9 December 2019
  • Here's a unique packing method that you can steal!
    Posted on: 29 September 2019
  • Top ten most weird places on earth that you won't believe are real
    Posted on: 12 February 2019
  • The 10 most beautiful places in the world to spend Christmas
    Posted on: 6 December 2018
  • 101 things you (yes YOU) could actually do on a career break
    Posted on: 9 August 2018
  • How a career break will increase your sex appeal
    Posted on: 20 June 2018
  • 10 places to go to avoid the royal wedding
    Posted on: 7 February 2018
  • The 10 most useful things you can learn this year
    Posted on: 8 January 2018
  • How to make this your best year ever
    Posted on: 4 January 2017
  • 10 things you can travel without
    Posted on: 9 August 2016
  • 99 reasons to take a career break
    Posted on: 22 July 2016
  • The 20 worst things about taking a gap year
    Posted on: 7 March 2016
  • 13 things I don't miss about England when I go travelling
    Posted on: 1 July 2015
  • 25 ways backpacking is like having a baby
    Posted on: 24 March 2015
  • 34 funny and stupid warning labels to laugh at and avoid [infographic]
    Posted on: 10 March 2015
  • 8 travel photos you need to stop taking
    Posted on: 11 February 2015
  • Recipe for the road: pasta and chorizo
    Posted on: 7 October 2014
  • Games to play in airports
    Posted on: 13 August 2014
  • The 10 best live maps on the internet
    Posted on: 23 June 2014
  • Win £10,000 - and a complete career change!
    Posted on: 15 May 2014
  • 13 usb devices your boss wishes were never invented
    Posted on: 25 March 2014
  • The 10 most romantic countries in the world
    Posted on: 11 February 2014
  • Ernest's Presentation
    Posted on: 27 December 2013
  • 100 things to ask a traveller
    Posted on: 4 September 2013
  • 10 questions you'll never ask a fellow traveller (even though you really want to)
    Posted on: 15 May 2013
  • The 10 commandments of career breaks
    Posted on: 21 March 2013
  • The 46 worst travel companions
    Posted on: 23 July 2012
  • Things to do on a long-haul flight for the easily bored
    Posted on: 24 January 2012
  • Travelling magical moments - how toilet paper became so important
    Posted on: 10 November 2011
  • 10 differences between tourists and travellers
    Posted on: 7 November 2011
  • 49 people you will meet travelling
    Posted on: 28 October 2011
  • Words and phrases that are banned at The Career Break Site
    Posted on: 24 August 2011
  • Being interviewed by Oxford University Press
    Posted on: 21 June 2011
  • 5 minor irritations that you can leave behind on a career break
    Posted on: 28 February 2011
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