As we come to the end of what seems to have been an incredibly busy December for most people in the market, it feels (optimistically) as if there’s an end in sight to what has been a pretty gruelling last five years.

It's therefore not surprising that, when faced with the prospect of earning their first decent bonus in a long while (or first ever sizable bonus for those who started in the City post 2007), some people are starting to wonder what it might be like to take a bit of a break from the rat race.