Preparing for an odyssey abroad? Not sure how best to go about planning, recording and sharing your experience? With a wealth of online resources out there it can be confusing. Here is a pick of some great sites that can help:
Gap Daemon
Specifically targeted at those planning a gap year, Gapdaemon.com has a wealth of comprehensive materials designed to advise, guide and help you research what you need as a backpacker. Not only that but you can also share journals and photographs with the broader community and connect with travellers while on the move.
BBC
The BBC can be great not just for news and programmes related to travel or travel destinations but for things like learning a language or researching the history of a particular place. The BBC Languages zone has lots of interactive games and quizzes to help get you up to speed with a language, while iPlayer and its travel related programming can help duel your travel desires.
Amazon
From user ratings to wishlists, comments to special deals, Amazon.com is another perfect choice for the backpacker [http://www.gapdaemon.com/] looking for travel related equipment at decent prices. Pretty much anything is available on the site and can be delivered to most destinations around the world. Couple that with the availability of all the latest gadgets and gizmos that can help to enrich a trip even further and it's easy to see why it's still the most popular shopping service around the globe.
Ebay
Need to raise some urgent pennies to help fund your travels? Ebay can come in handy. Why not flog some of your old loot that you're not going to need when hotfooting it across Indonesia? It'll be better in the hands of a regular user anyway and you'll have some money for an extra burger or two along the way.
Google
From excellent maps, to a versatile and reliable email service, the geeks at Google have you covered while you continue onward moving from country to country. Gmail is one of the best email providers out there, couple that with its integration with Calendar and most of the social networks around the web and it'll probably shape up being the online resource you use the most as a backpacker [http://www.gapdaemon.com/].
Gap Daemon
Specifically targeted at those planning a gap year, Gapdaemon.com has a wealth of comprehensive materials designed to advise, guide and help you research what you need as a backpacker. Not only that but you can also share journals and photographs with the broader community and connect with travellers while on the move.
BBC
The BBC can be great not just for news and programmes related to travel or travel destinations but for things like learning a language or researching the history of a particular place. The BBC Languages zone has lots of interactive games and quizzes to help get you up to speed with a language, while iPlayer and its travel related programming can help duel your travel desires.
Amazon
From user ratings to wishlists, comments to special deals, Amazon.com is another perfect choice for the backpacker [http://www.gapdaemon.com/] looking for travel related equipment at decent prices. Pretty much anything is available on the site and can be delivered to most destinations around the world. Couple that with the availability of all the latest gadgets and gizmos that can help to enrich a trip even further and it's easy to see why it's still the most popular shopping service around the globe.
Ebay
Need to raise some urgent pennies to help fund your travels? Ebay can come in handy. Why not flog some of your old loot that you're not going to need when hotfooting it across Indonesia? It'll be better in the hands of a regular user anyway and you'll have some money for an extra burger or two along the way.
From excellent maps, to a versatile and reliable email service, the geeks at Google have you covered while you continue onward moving from country to country. Gmail is one of the best email providers out there, couple that with its integration with Calendar and most of the social networks around the web and it'll probably shape up being the online resource you use the most as a backpacker [http://www.gapdaemon.com/].