As 2019 begins, the Japanese passport has been ranked the most powerful in the world on the Henley Passport Index, the original ranking of all the world’s passports. Based on data from the International Air Transport Association, the index ranks countries according to the number of destinations their holders can access without a prior visa. The Japanese […]

Paris, a city where wearing exercise in clothes was once seen as a major faux pas, has been revealed as one of the healthiest cities in the world to visit. A recent study examined a number of factors including the availability of vegan restaurants to health food shops, parks, gyms and the number of daylight […]

The idea of taking a career gap to travel – especially mid-career rather than at the beginning – has conjured up negative assumptions among employers. Sometimes taking a career gap can create the illusion that the individual in question is trying to ‘escape’ or is ‘taking a step back’. While employers’ attitudes towards career break […]

At seventeen years old, I set out from home on my own for the first time. I was gone for ten months on a trip which took me around the globe in a northwestward fashion, at once both slowly closing and widening the gap that separated me from my parent’s farm in Manitoba, Canada. There […]