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For the trip I did, I got the e-mail addresses of the others going on the trip from EoE and arranged a meet up in London a few months before we left. Got about half the people along.

Make sure you can cross from India into Burma and get across Burma (combinations of visas, area permits and bridges down can easily make it impossible) - tried it a few years back and no go Crying or Very sad

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Time - as much as possible. Most people only get to travel once, so make the most of it, spending as much time away as possible. If looking to work, examine possibility of getting working holiday visa ...

A lot will depend on how much you want to spend on your Trans-Siberian ticket...whether you want to have the trouble of trying to sort it out yourself (http://www.seat61.com/), and whether you want th ...

The rent-a-room scheme is the obvious choice (£4,200ish of income is tax emempt, the rest is taxed as though it was earned income, ie at your marginal tax rate of either 20% or 40%) - I didn't know it ...

Dragoman are very expensive (they advertise a lot more than other companies so have more overheads). Kumuka can also be pricey but well worth looking at their site to get ideas.

Absolute Africa are ...

The tenancy may or may not be joint - it is normal to be joint, but it does not have to be. If you get a place via an estate agent a joint tenancy is highly likely. Some landlords will let out rooms d ...

1) Look into the issues around freehold versus leasehold
2) To get a mortgage, you should ideally have a 25% deposit. Certainly no less than 10%
3) There is a Govt. scheme whereby people without a d ...

Although every centre will be different, it is likely that you and about 5-10 others will spend about half a day to a full day going through a variety of tests.

Some of these are likely to be indiv ...

Can't answer your question, but Directgov is normally a pretty good starting point:

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/BenefitsTaxCreditsAndOtherSupport/On_a_low_income/DG_10018926

i knew how to write

You knew? When did you forget?

all of my adv perfect right just cause they r using automatical tool to stop adv.

If only you could remember how to write, it may have made ...

EOE have split off their London-Sydney trips into a sister company, leaving the exploratory trips with EOE. It is still exactly the same people running things though.

The new company is called Ukto ...

If she rings job centre, she is entitled to a crisis lone of some sort.

There are a few key criteria for Crisis Loans.

She currently lives with her boyfriend who supports her while she looks fo ...

but i feel heading down to view the places, going back to london, packing up my stuff then heading back down again is a money and time consuming thing.

Nothing compared to the time you will subseq ...

I wouldn't think of it in terms of whether you are right to ask for his use of utilities or not.

The point is, your goodwill is being abused here. The share of bills (which won't be much really) is ...

10 grand should be okay (assuming £5K payment, £5K spending. Have to be a bit careful, but not unreasonably so.

I think the group I went with may be a bit different to now, as group composition is ...

FFS sake, for anyone who does not know, Gumtree annoyingly changes the initials of a company that deals mostly with Antiodeans but also sounds like it might do mail to "oops"

So Google fo ...

Would be interested to know if anyone has actually done this before?

I did the inaugral trip in 2006 if there is anything you particularly want to know.

*scratches head and looks puzzled, think ...

An okay generic answer to this is to say that you have a tendency to take on too many things and as a result always have to be careful to prioritise work.

Thus trying to convey that you are a keen ...

I did the inaugral trip in 2006 if there is anything you particularly want to know.

Not a huge amount to do prior to departure really.

The main thing is vaccinations, for which to allow up to 3 ...

I don't know about HB/LHA, but it may well be the same as for care services provided by councils - for those you can't claim until you live in the area.

That creates a lot of problems for some elde ...

A zone 1-2 travelcard will cost you £100 per month. That will be your main unavoidable expense.

I'd say that if you have no rent or bills to pay, you could live off about £100 per week, although so ...

£200 per week on top of accomodation expenses would be a reasonable guess I'd say.

Could do less, maybe £100 as an absolute minimum.

Main thing is to be 100% certain about this job with accomod ...

Is there any reason why landlords would object to this?

A thread that answers this has been debated recently http://forums.gumtree.com/viewtopic.php?t=259062

Plus, I understand many estate agen ...

I'd always put my full address.

Besides, using things like 192.com etc if I was minded to find your precise address I could probably do so quite easily, given I would know your full name and teleph ...