It's never too late to take a golden gap year

A gap year offers a chance to travel the world and step outside your usual routine before settling into "real life" and all the responsibilities that come with it. For a long time, the gap year has felt like an Australian rite of passage. But the reality is, many people never got that chance. A recent survey from travel company Intrepid found 80 per cent of those over 55 missed out.So a new kind of adventure is filling the gap. The golden or grown-up gap year is for people in their 50s, 60s and beyond, keen to set off on the kinds of trips they missed out on in their youth.