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5 Bangkok Spots for an Insta-Worthy Picture!

Bangkok welcomes record numbers of tourists each year, and it’s not hard to see why. This incredibly diverse city is unlike any other. Skyscrapers, temples, tuk-tuks and exotic cuisine. As well as all of this, Bangkok is a photographers heaven, every street holds something that’s just screaming to be captured. If you ever find yourself in brilliant Bangkok, these are the 5 places that you … Continue reading 5 Bangkok Spots for an Insta-Worthy Picture!

Molly Geddes
Travel

Do Something Different For Valentines

Valentine’s Day is my favourite holiday. Yes not Christmas or New Year’s day. Valentines. But not for the clich├®s like flowers and dinner and chocolate, Valentines is the time of year you make timeless memories with your loved one, and what better way to do this than travel? My boyfriend and I spontaneously booked to go to Dublin this year, and this was the perfect … Continue reading Do Something Different For Valentines

gemmagibson
Travel

Explore: Paris

Smelling freshly baked croissants, spotting spectacular architecture, and waking up to the vision of the Notre Dame every morning, nothing could be more magical. Paris is as close to an enchanted, fairy-tale life as we will ever get. For starters they have Disneyland, that place is argument enough. Yes I saw all the sites. A drive across Paris from left to right takes approximately four … Continue reading Explore: Paris

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Food, Travel

Quench Food Abroad: A day on Cloud9, Fiji

Our Food and Drink editor Georgia O’Brien was lucky enough to have travelled halfway across the world this summer to the beautiful Fiji Islands. Here she shares her once in a lifetime experience on Cloud9, a floating pizzeria restaurant in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Only a short flight away from the popular backing hotspots Australia and New Zealand, the Fiji Islands are renowned … Continue reading Quench Food Abroad: A day on Cloud9, Fiji

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Travel

Top Travel YouTube Channels

With summer coming to an end and lectures fast approaching, here are our Top Travel YouTube Channels to┬áprovide some term-time wanderlust and inspire your next trip. 1.Vagabrothers Two brothers, Marko and Alex Ayling who, after winning a travel video contest in 2013, started their own YouTube channel to document their adventures around the world. They are among the most┬árecognised creators of travel content within the … Continue reading Top Travel YouTube Channels

harrietthornley
Travel

On the Road: Our Favourite Roadtrip Routes

Road trips arenÔÇÖt just for the movies anymore. Whether you are looking for an afternoon exploring Wales or an adventure further afield let our travel team give you some ideas. Words by Alice Dent and Lucy Pierce.   GREAT OCEAN ROAD ThereÔÇÖs no doubt that Australia is a pretty cool country, and what better way to experience it than by taking a trip along VictoriaÔÇÖs … Continue reading On the Road: Our Favourite Roadtrip Routes

Emily Giblett
Travel, uncategorized

Book Review: The Gap-Year Guidebook

Thinking about taking a gap year but have no idea where to start? One such place, which guarantees to answer most of your queries, worries and qualms, is the 23rd edition of The Gap-Year Guidebook. With a new edition each year, the series of books do what they say on the tin. Its overall presentation initially seems quite dense. When picking up a guidebook you … Continue reading Book Review: The Gap-Year Guidebook

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Travel

Top Travel Blogs

Like many final year students too scared to face up to real-world demands and find a job just yet, IÔÇÖve recently been planning a post-University gap year to Australia and parts of Asia. Whereas, in years gone by, I remember my parents pouring over endless brochures, atlases and travel guides before deciding on that years summer holiday, my first thought when planning my travels was … Continue reading Top Travel Blogs

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Travel

Travel Aspirations 2014

This month Quench Travel finds out which destinations are tempting our fellow students to explore different cultures in 2014!┬á Interrailing Following a pretty dismal summer of 2013, the winter-exam-January blues spurred on the adventurist within me and I have now planned to go interrailing around Europe this summer. Such a brilliant form of procrastination, I might add. With my best friend now residing up north, … Continue reading Travel Aspirations 2014

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Travel

Student in a Strange Land: Study China

Study China is a programme open to UK undergraduate and postgraduate students which is designed to grant successful candidates a unique insight into China, its language and culture. Funded by the department of Business and Innovation, Study China offers successful applicants 3 weeks tuition and accommodation at a Chinese university as well as organising a selection of cultural trips and activities for participants. I, along … Continue reading Student in a Strange Land: Study China

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