Here we are extolling the virtues of your son or daughter taking a gap year and you are probably sitting there wondering why they should be having all the fun?!
If browsing our website has whetted your appetite for your very own gap year or career break travel, then you'll be delighted to hear there are plenty of opportunities for the over 30s to take a well earned career break as well.
Why not take some time out from your career whilst you experience something new and exciting gap year for grown ups?
Always fancied backpacking round the world and thought you'd missed the chance? Fed up with the corporate lifestyle or the commute and want to put something back by getting involved in a worthwhile voluntary project? It's easier than you think.
We at Real Gap Experience are great believers in the importance of taking a constructive career break later in life as well as when you are young. In fact we believe in it so much that we've created a website dedicated to the over 30s travel.
It's not just us that believe in the concept either. More and more employers are coming round to the idea of sabbatical breaks and the benefits they provide.
A mortgage is not necessarily the ball and chain it used to be either. Most banks and mortgage providers offer mortgage breaks these days, making it possible to defer payment for a fixed period.
Real Gap Year Experience provides rewarding gap year jobs and volunteer gap year projects abroad, for students, career break and gap years for grown ups in 30 countries worldwide. Real Gap Year's best available gap year ideas are: