Sabbatical Websites
The Sabbatical Coach - Clive Prout, professional sabbatical coach
The Career Break Site - The UK’s #1 Career Break Site
Gap Year for Grownups - Trips, articles and resources for adult gappers
The Family Sabbatical Handbook - A budget guide to living abroad with your children
YourSabbatical.com - Sabbatical guidance for companies and individuals, including a growing list of companies offering sabbatical programs.
Sabbatical Podcasts and Audio
Gapyearlight - audio interviews with sabbaticalists, young and old. Available as an iTunes podcast. or downloadable mp3 files.
Sabbatical Housing
Home Exchange.com - Premium home exchange site. Tons of listings. Search for free, list for a fee. Also shows the number of previous exchanges done by owners.
Sabbatical Homes - Home swaps, rentals, exchanges for the academic community. Free listings for home seekers.
Digsville - A home exchange club. Great site, membership required.
HomeLink International - Billed as “the world’s leading home exchange organisation”, with over 13,000 home swappers from 72 countries
Travel Sites
Vagabonding - The online home for Rolf Potts’ Vagabonding. If budget travel is part of your sabbatical plans, both his book and site are must reads.
Take Back Your Time - the home of the “major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment”
The Simplicity Forum - Resources, events and speakers for simple, sustainable living
In Praise of Slow - The website of author Carl Honoré, author of In Praise of Slow, the quintessential guide to the Slow movement.