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About

Welcome to the home of Gap Year Pins. A website created by travellers, for travellers...

We love to travel and can regularly be found backpacks in hand, heading off in search of new adventures. From holidays, to career breaks, we try and get away as often as we can, exploring the world and experiencing new cultures, food, music and destinations.

Explore the blog to find out about some of our recent trips, favourite destinations, great gay travel destinations, top tips for travelling and more.
Liam & Nick

Our Travels

At Gap Year Pins we've been lucky enough to explore many fantastic countries, including Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Canada and many European destinations.

Check out some of our adventures!

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The Mary Baker Eddy Library, MIT & Harvard

Friday (June 7th, 2013) was a very soggy and wet day in Boston but we did the travelling thing and waterproofed up and headed out, thankfully the weather did let up long enough for some nice photos. We visited the…

Happy Birthday!

Before I get into this post I'd like to apologise if it confuses anyone reading. I'm fully aware that the date today is January 2nd, 2014 and my 32nd birthday was on November 27th, 2013 but what can I say...…

D.I.Y

When you're on a budget and travelling for a year it's inevitable that certain sacrifices have to be made... I didn't realise one of them would be my hair! After some contemplation I decided that hair cuts for 12 months…

Why not...

Why not checkout some of the categories from our travels, get inspired and start planning your next big adventure.

Catlins, NZ | Kobe, Japan | Montreal, QC |

Your Big Adventure!

We love sharing tips and information about destinations, festivals and events, LGBT+ travel, different ways of travelling and our experiences both as backpackers and gay travellers. In the blog you'll find write-ups of many of the places we've visited, as well as some top tips for travel.

However, if you're planning on taking a longer trip and aren't sure where to start with planning, budgeting, booking accommodation or transport, then we've written a step-by-step guide, which is available as an eBook.

Your Big Adventure is full of useful information to help you prepare for backpacking, a gap-year or extended break. It contains tips from all our travels, as well as some of the big things you'll need to think about, and that all-important packing list!

Available from Amazon, it's priced at just 99p!

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Who We Are?

Find out more about the people behind Gap Year Pins.

Liam Goldstein

Freelance Web Designer / Creative

A digital creative with a flair for design. Liam loves trying new cuisines and is the resident travel photographer.

Nick Frampton

Freelance Copywriter / Author

Wandering wordsmith Nick is an experienced marketer and copywriter and also helps independent authors with their writing.

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