TRAVEL GEAR, ACCESSORIES & PACKING
Choosing The Right Gear And Accessories Helps You To Pack And Travel Better.
Wacaco Minipresso GR Review: Espresso Maker For Travelling, Camping & Home
Love your coffee? Anytime, Anywhere? Well you will love the Wacaco Minipresso GR. This is because no matter where you are in the world, or what you are doing, you can enjoy a great cup of espresso coffee. Whether that be while travelling, camping or even at home,...
9 Ways To Prevent Face Mask Skin Problems
Face Masks have become the ‘must wear’ item during the pandemic affecting the world. As we have learnt from health professionals, face masks play a vital role in reducing the spread of coronavirus. At the same time, they are hard on your skin. They are particularly...
Best Travel Pillows For Long Trips
Being uncomfortable, tired, and cranky are feelings no one wants when travelling in their long-haul or overnight travel. To combat these feelings people use travel pillows. Now travel pillows have been around a long time. Some people swear by them while others think...
Best Power Bank For Travel | How To Choose The Best Power Bank
Charge your phone and iPad at the same time Smartphones have replaced the need for several gadgets while you travel. I use my phone in a number of ways including searching the internet, keeping in contact on social media and as a camera, to name a few. My phone...
Collapsable Travel Gear and Accessories – Your New Best Friends
When we travel we don’t want to be lumbered with heavy travel gear and accessories. Well I don’t anyway. What I have discovered to help me pack better and lighter is collapsable travel gear and accessories. They have been a godsend as they let me travel with more...
Guide to the Best Packing Cubes for Travel – Keep Luggage Organised
I’ve spent most of my life travelling to different locations around the world, sometimes on short trips and sometimes a lot longer. My luggage would always start off tidy. The longer I travelled the messier it would become and on many occasions I would be pulling my...
Beach Holiday Packing List – Essential Items To Enjoy Your Holiday
Many countries around the world are surrounded by coastline, and this coastline has some beautiful beaches. And when warm weather comes we all like to pack our bags and have a holiday at the beach. Now our beach holiday can be made or broken by the items we pack, or...
Have Office, Will Travel: Digital Tech Gear Essentials For Digital Nomads
As the saying goes, Have Office, Will Travel - or I think that is how it goes! Many people are working online as they travel around the world. To be able to work effectively online there is certain equipment that you will need. Here are the digital tech gear...
Essential Travel Gear For the Traveller
Updated October 2020. Are you are heading off travelling or know someone going travelling and you want to buy yourself or them a travel accessory that will be really useful. Well here is my list of really useful, and I think essential, travel gear and accessories. And...
Messenger Bag | 5 reasons to love a Messenger Bag
First published March 4.3.18 - Updated 1.12.19When I was looking for a new bag to take travelling, one that would fit in all my stuff and be light and easy to carry around, a newly acquainted friend suggested a messenger bag. I said “what’s a messenger...
Packing List for a Working Holiday
So you’re going on a working holiday? You’ve chosen the country, got your working holiday visa and now it’s time to pack. But what do you pack for a working holiday when you will be spending 1 to 2 years in another country? Well, having gone on a working...
Checklist – Let the countdown to your travels begin
Preparation is keyWhen preparing to travel whether it be for a weekend, a couple of weeks or an extended time abroad you will always need to prepare for your trip in some way. The following checklist I have written is to help you get yourself sorted when...
How Not To Look Like A Tourist
Travelling to different countries is exciting. Just the thought of travelling exhilarates me as I think about the places I will see, the things I will do, the food I might eat and the culture I will experience. But there is also a scary side to being a tourist....
Choosing Luggage – Suitcases vs Backpacks, Which One Is Better?
Buying a travel backpack or suitcase is an important purchase for any traveller. With so much choice of luggage out there in the market place what do you choose? Suitcase or Backpack? Which one is Better? Having travelled with both a suitcase and a backpack myself I...
What to Wear on a Plane: 7 Tips To Stay Comfortable and Stylish
Air travel is often a mix of different climates. From a warmish terminal, to a hot tarmac, to an arctic air-conditioned cabin during the flight to a warm terminal again. And after that you have the local conditions at your destination to deal with. Then while on the...
7 tips To Choose the Perfect Backpack
Photo credit: Canva A backpack or rucksack is an essential purchase for any traveller heading overseas. Choosing the perfect backpack can be a hard decision. The backpack, once seen as the budget traveller’s best friend has evolved making it the ideal companion...
