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\nHowever, you will have faced two major problems.\u00a0 Flights are now expensive, especially to get out of the winter gloom and during the school holidays.\u00a0 Appealing destinations are packed pushing up hotel prices and you will most likely surrounded by the specimens you are trying to avoid: school children!<\/p>\n\n
Teaching overseas improves your travel opportunities no end for the following reasons:<\/p>\n
Stuck for ideas \u2013 the following may give you some ideas:<\/p>\n
Late October break: <\/strong>take advantage of the last of the Northern Hemisphere sun with a break in the South of Spain or Portugal.\u00a0 Stay in a lovely Pousada<\/a> and sip away at Sangria in the evenings with a few tapas to keep your stomach happy too.<\/p>\n Christmas break: <\/strong>fly to Marrakech for souks, open-air markets and riads combined with either a visit to the High Atlas mountains for spectacular trekking and village stay.\u00a0 An alternative is the fabulous beach town of Essaouira.\u00a0 Celebrate Christmas with a tagine in the mountains, then head down to the beach for a sun downer!\u00a0 Alternatively, organise a family holiday in Australia or Cape Town in South Africa \u2013 it doesn\u2019t get any better than that!<\/p>\n Late February break: <\/strong>head to the ski resorts of Vancouver and debate why it tops most tables for offering the best quality of life in the world.\u00a0 Don\u2019t like the cold \u2013 make your colleagues green with envy and head down to Rio for the Carnival.<\/p>\n Easter holiday: <\/strong>time to arrange a visit to South East Asia.\u00a0 Combine a visit to Thailand\u2019s wonderful beaches with a spot of culture in Angkor Wat (Cambodia) or visit the ruined temples of Bagan in Burma.\u00a0 It could be a fascinating time to visit!\u00a0 Alternatively, it is prime time to arrange a 2 week trek with a bit of white water rafting in Nepal.\u00a0 It\u2019s also festival time in Spain, Seville has amongst the best!<\/p>\n June break: <\/strong>you will probably be saving for the summer break (if you are in the northern hemisphere) so keep it low key.\u00a0 Offer to run a pre exams revision camp, go on a camping holiday locally or discover a nearby city for the weekend.\u00a0 Feeling flush?\u00a0 Mozambique is begging to be discovered, try the Northern coast for a holiday you\u2019ll never forget.<\/p>\n Summer holiday: <\/strong>Where to start?\u00a0 You\u2019ll probably have two months off.\u00a0 Time to travel properly!\u00a0 Explore the gems of the Middle East with bags of culture thrown in \u2013 Syria and Jordan are two of our favourites.\u00a0 China is on the verge of becoming the world\u2019s largest economy and is now much easier to visit.\u00a0 With much of Asia hit by monsoon, do an overland trip taking in Beijing, Shanghai and Tibet.\u00a0 Be sure to try Szechuan food for those with a taste for spicy food. \u00a0Finally, visit the surrounding jungles, magnificent city of Cartagena in Colombia and you\u2019ll probably never come back.<\/p>\n How often have you walked into the staffroom on the day back and a colleague who thinks they are rather funny comments that there are only 49 days working days until the next holiday? Whilst there is much, much more to teaching, I have no doubt that holidays are probably are the biggest perk of the profession.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[854],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Krhd-1e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12952,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions\/12952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.teacherhorizons.com\/advice\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Inspired?\u00a0 Please contribute your ideas here!<\/h5>\n
Did we tell you there are also great professional development opportunities<\/a> too?<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"