Experience tells me this is the time to travel

SUSAN Dalgety and her husband have given up their jobs, let their heavily mortgaged house and headed off to travel the world in a camper van. SW is following her experiences and you can also read her blog, The Road To Dot, online at www.theroadtodot.blogspot.com EVEN in the packed streets of down-town Dar es Salaam, a city of some three million souls, the gap-year kids are easy to spot. The girls, brown-limbed and effortlessly stylish, even in African-print harem pants, gather in pairs around street vendo rs, as eager for a bargain here in one of the world's poorest economies as they are in Primark. The boys try hard to look like men as they negotiate the twisting backstreets, their giant backpacks screaming "gap year" as much as their instantly recognisable public school accents and incongruously braided hair. And their... [read full story]