Filling the Gap

Heather and Kate, two 18-year old school friends, took a life-changing gap year in 2006. Backpacking around the world they experienced everything from the attempted seduction by an over-keen Kashmiri guide; the failings of a 1985 Honda Accord in the New Zealand remoteness; and the consequences of drink-spiking in South America; to the mystic wonders of Macchu Picchu and Easter Island; the surf beaches (and bodies) of Australia; and the eye-openers of Thailand.

The idea of spending 13 years in full-time education, followed by a further 3 years in university (and even more if you're really keen), can be too much for some people and so the "Gap Year" was born. Jetting off to far off lands without the confines of parents, siblings and the British weather at the impressionable age of 18 forms a very different sort of education.

With each adventure came new highs and lows for Heather and Kate as they took on the world, one naïve step at a time.