• Adventure Thrifts: Copenhagen

    My friend and I were completely bogged down in the pre-Christmas slump of having trudged through 11 weeks of lectures, coursework and revision. We knew a holiday was needed and we knew we couldn’t actually afford one. After a drunken search of Skyscanner however, I realised we in fact,...
  • Travel Refresh

    Want to successfully travel cheap while studying abroad? It’s a new year and with that comes new resolutions! If yours is to travel more, then keep reading because the University of Nottingham’s Travel Society has put together some handy tips for how to travel on a budget. 1. Plan...
  • Adventure Thrifts: Venice

    It was mid-September, summer was practically over and autumn term was fast approaching. With two weeks left until the big university move, we chose to book one last spontaneous flight to Venice (the cost of one flight was the equivalent to a coach journey to London thus we had...
  • Adventure Thrifts: Travelling on a budget

    As the slog of the winter semester begins to draw to a festive end, many of us are without money; many more of us have yet to do Christmas shopping and even more of us are fantasising about a holiday before the exam season kicks in. But, why fantasise?...
  • Daily Persuasion: Morocco

    I travelled around Morocco for 6 weeks this summer with other students from around the world, here’s some of my advice about visiting and why you should go:   Cheap cost of living I think the happiest I was all trip was when we found a place doing breakfast for...
  • Unlocking Jiufen: The treasure of Taiwan

    For some of the less seasoned travellers out there, an article about Jiufen, Taiwan seems incredibly alien at first sight. Never fear, for IMPACT Travel’s Karmen Truong is on hand to give us the lowdown on one of the treasures of the East. How to get there? Recommended route:...
  • Studying Abroad: Sometimes tough, always rewarding

    With the beginning of the new academic year, many of the languages students and others with study abroad opportunities have ventured off to various corners of the world. While some of us are just starting our year abroad adventures, others are mostly settled in their new locations. I myself...