Gap Year Travellers come in all shapes and sizes; during your journey you will undoubtedly come across a wide-spectrum of nationalities and personalities. Here is a light-hearted look at but a few of the characters you are likely to encounter along the way.
1. The Party Animal: First one in, last one out the club. The only sunrise they will see is on their way home from the night before.
Likely Destinations: Anywhere with a happy hour.
2. The Budgeter: Who needs happy hour when you can sit in your room and drink budget vodka that tastes like paint-stripper, right?!
Likely Destinations: Wherever they have been saving for the past year to visit.
3. Mr Monopoly: Would rather buy new clothes than use a laundrette. Money is no issue.
Likely Destinations: The big cities. Anywhere with a decent shopping centre.
4. Free Spirit: Can often be found enforcing silence so everybody can listen to them play acoustic guitar.
Likely Destinations: Somewhere Russell Brand has previously visited.
5. The Backpacker: Cockroaches and vomit add character to their hostel experience. There is every possibility they don’t remember the last time they showered.
Likely Destinations: Watching the sunrise with a campfire and an acoustic guitar.
6. The Stickler: There is no room for last minute alterations, or recommendations whilst on the road; they have every second of every day planned out.
Likely Destinations: Anywhere on their pre-planned itinerary.
7. The Know-it-all: They will insist that Montparnasse Tower is better than the Eiffel Tower without having been to either.
Likely Destinations: Somewhere you have never heard of.
8. The Instagrammer: They are open to suggestions on where to go… but first, let me take a selfie.
Likely Destinations: Anywhere with a great backdrop.
9. The Casanova: Looking for love in all the wrong places. Equally, they are unlikely to remember your name the next day.
Likely Destinations: Any bed, except their own.
10. Beach Bum: If they were any more laidback they would be horizontal.
Likely Destinations: They don’t care where they are as long as it has a good beach.
11. The Chatterbox: Knows every person in the hostel. Even Dave, the Janitor.
Likely Destinations: Everywhere… and you will hear them coming!
12. The Solo Traveller: Trying to discover themselves whilst sitting mysteriously at a train station.
Likely Destinations: Anywhere off-the-beaten-path.
