The Best Ways to Truly Experience the UK |
Posted: March 23, 2018 |
If you love to travel, you are well familiar with the difficulty finding time to truly explore. For some people, a few days to look around might seem fine. For the rest of us who want to be able to dive below the surface of the local culture, food, and history, we are always looking for ways to experience more. Here are tips for making your travel dreams come true. Work There The best way to experience the United Kingdom is the live there. That can enable you to fully explore your new home city and then spend weekends and holidays traveling. This can give you the chance to try the foods, make friends, and discover all the best the UK has to offer. You can apply with local companies for jobs within the UK. The UK’s Tier 2 Visa rules allow UK companies to sponsor foreign workers for skilled jobs. This can be a wonderful opportunity to advance your career and put your skills to work while getting to travel around the UK. Classes Signing up for a class or other educational program within the UK can give you plenty of time to explore the country. From a weeklong class within your field to a university program, there are plenty of options. If English isn’t your native language, taking an intensive English language program can be a wonderful way for you to master the language while speaking with locals. Housesitting For some people, housesitting has become a way of life. If you’re retired or working remotely, taking on housesitting opportunities can provide the travel opportunities you’ve been seeking. Check online for people looking for people willing to watch their homes while they’re away. There are websites that specialise in this and allow people to become rated and certified as experienced house sitters. Often homeowners will expect you to take care of their pets while you’re there. That makes it important to have good skills with pets and no pet allergies. You can start out by accepting housesitting assignments closer to your home. Then, once you have a history of being reliable and providing good service, it will be easier to get a housesitting position in the UK. Home Stays It’s hard to get a sense of place from inside a hotel room. Wherever you go, the hotels tend to be much the same. One solution is to stay in the home of someone who is native to the area. Homes stays can enable you to meet your host family, possibly share meals, and get a true sense of the area. If home stays sound like they don’t have enough privacy for you, renting a room or house is another option. You tend to not have as much contact with the owners of the property but you still get to experience a local residential neighbourhood and typical housing. Telecommute If you can work online, your job is already ideally suited for travel. You can visit the UK and travel around while you still work. That can give you enough time to fully explore without requiring you to take an extended amount of time off from work. Telecommuting has become even easier now that hotels offer internet access and free WIFI is readily available in many UK coffee shops and restaurants.
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