Anyone considering camping in cold weather needs to spend some time planning for warmth. It’s key to comfort, enjoyment and safety so here are some tips on how to stay warm. Start with your body, from the inside. The average optimal body temperature is 37ºC. Maintaining it will take more energy in very cold conditions and if you’re burning more calories, you need to eat more. Foods that take longer…
There are lots of gap year ideas out there and organised programmes that combine work or study and travel. But maybe you’re considering a more independent approach? If so, read on – I’ve put together some information to get you started. In our 20s, we spent a year in Australia. We organised our own travel and found work. It may need more planning but that approach definitely is still possible…
Back in the day and way before LayBakPak, we had a Gap Year! It wasn’t an organised volunteering, studying or working program. We simply bought plane tickets to Australia and took off – literally. We had some idea of where we would be staying but no idea of where we would be working. It felt like a huge adventure. The first 4 months in Sydney were spent working (3 jobs…
For us at LayBakPak, it’s all about getting out to appreciate the beautiful world we live in. So, in our blogs, we’d like to share tips on practical ways to enjoy being in wild places and to tell you about great places to spend time outdoors. But as Sir David Attenborough expresses so clearly in these words, “No one will protect what they don’t care about, and no one will…
