An Essex woman travelled to 16 places in six months - using just 11.5 days of annual leave. Ella Brown, 24, didn't want her job to get in the way of her travels and planned some of the best ways she could make the most of her annual leave.
In the first six months year she has been to 16 places - including Croatia, Sorrento in Italy and Munich in Germany - by using the Easter and late May bank holidays and cramming in short breaks over weekends. She also visited Turkey in August - using up a further nine days of her annual leave. Ella, who works in PR, from Hockley, said: "It's a nice way to continue see the world and making the most of weekends and time off.
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I look at the time to see where I could strategically book dates. I'm always attaching it to weekends. This year is the first year I've really planned out what I wanted to do.
It's all quite logical." Ella got the travel bug after taking a gap year in September 2021 and spending three months in America. When she returned to start work in September 2022 she wanted to still "pursue travel" and looked a.