Travelling in Britain

Read the text аnd decide whether the statements are true or false.

Travelling in Britain.

Travelling is very popular among students in Britain. They don’t have a lot of money, so has to be cheap. But there are many ways of traveling at low cost. The cheapest way to travel is hitchhiking. But it can be dangerous, so it’s better to use normal public transport.

If you want to travel by train, you can get a student railcard. With this you can get train tickets at a discount. For international travel in Europe, you can get an Interrail card.

If you want to travel to somewhere more exotic, you have to travel by air. But isn’t as expensive as it sounds. There are a lot of shops

(called « bucket shops »). They sell cheap airline tickets to countries like the USA, Thailand and Australia. They advertise in magazines and newspapers. A lot of these tickets are standby tickets. This means that you haven’t got a reserved seat. You have to wait and see if the plain is full. So you might have to spend a few days at the airport before you get on a flight.

Magazines often carry adverts for « overland » tours especially to Africa and India, or Latin America. On these tours, you can travel with a group in a mini – bus. It isn’t very comfortable and you have to share the cooking, but it’s a cheap way to see parts of the world that most tourists never go to.

While British young people are travelling to Africa and the Far East, many young people from Australia and New Zealand travel to Britain. They get cheap airline tickets to London. Then they usually buy a used van and travel around Europe. You can usually recognize the young travelers from Oz because they often paint a kangaroo symbol on the van.

True / False statements:

1 British students don’t have a lot of money, that’s why travelling isn’t very popular among them.

2 Hitchhiking can be dangerous.

3 With a student railcard you can’t get train tickets at a discount.

Travelling by air is very expensive.

« Bucket shops » sell cheap airline tickets.

« Overland » tours are very comfortable.

« Overland» tour isn’t an expensive way to see parts of the world.

The young travellers from Oz like to travel around Europe.