All posts by questoverseas

When travelling overseas clean safe drinking water is always a problem. One solution is to buy bottled water, but on average it will cost you $1 a litre and this can add up. There is also the environmental cost in buying plastic bottles that are rarely recycled in less developed countries that lack the infrastructure. […]

Who says pub landlords do nothing but drink beer, eat crisps and moan about things?! Well done to ex-Quest volunteer turned pub landlord Ben Ambridge for raising funds to help the local Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance service and the children’s cancer charity CLIC Sargent. How are they going to do this? By climbing their […]

Mystery surrounds the appearance of a giant Lego man on the beach here in Brighton.   The 6ft-tall (1.8m) red, green and yellow figure has the slogan “No Real Than You Are” painted on the front and some words written in Dutch. A Brighton resident said he had spotted the figure in the water while […]

BP announced record fuel profits of £6.4 billion over the last 1/4, but fuel prices are still at a record high in the UK. In Mozambique and the rest of Southern Africa fuel as nearly doubled over the last 1.5years from 6 South African Rand/litre to over R10/litre. The result has been increases in food, […]

A few out takes from the volunteer training weekend just gone……

The first officially sanctioned sale of ivory in southern Africa for almost a decade opens on Tuesday.  Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe will auction more than 100 tonnes of ivory from stockpiles to buyers from China and Japan. Data shows that poaching figures dropped after the last official sale, but fears remain that this […]

This weekend saw 33 young people descend on Dulwich Scout centre in South West London for 2 days of preparation for their travels to all parts of South America. The highlight of the weekend was the salsa lesson, instructed by our very own Jon Jon Cassidy, the master…….

Thanks to a rather nasty facebook message from my good friend Kunal I have decided that if anyone wishes to send in photos or text about time spent with Quest Overseas or anything intresting they might be doing,I will feature them on the site. So as demanded for my angry little friend in Vanuatu, your […]

I was unusually organised at school, at 17 I signed up to spend 3 months in Madagascar in my Gap Year.  It was to be a full year and a half until I actually stepped onto the plane to start my adventure which was to dictate the next 5 years of my life. I was […]

London has talked about simplifying the opening ceremony for 2012, I think they could get some tips from our children’s project here in Peru! Joking aside though, what a fantastic way to combine sport and teaching kids about other countries – well done guys!