Have Kindle Will Travel
I’m excited – its coming. I think its somewhere over the Pacific actually – its left LAX but not got to Auckland yet. It’s my Kindle! Mid 2010 was significant not just because the latest version of the Kindle was released – the Kindle 3 – but because it was made available to residents of [...]
Best Travel Pillow: Features To Look For
The best travel pillows provide just the right amount of neck and head support so that you can rest comfortably while traveling. Most are designed specifically to allow you to sleep in an upright position without over-extending your neck muscles. While that seems relatively straight forward, once you start to analyze what is on the [...]
Disadvantages of Luxury Luggage
Luxury luggage can be priced several times higher than standard suitcase brands. Unfortunately, not all of these products live up to their expectations. In some cases, trendy brand name luggage from Gucci or Louis Vuitton may not hold up well during airline travel. A test was recently conducted to measure the strength of luxury suitcases. [...]
Travel Efficiently With Lightweight Suitcases
Air travel is hard enough these days, what with the strip searches and metal detectors and guard-staring eyeballers, the loudspeakers and the ticket booths and the luggage weight restrictions. Luggage weight restrictions, like a slap in the face, as if travelers have not already suffered a big enough loss of dignity now they have to [...]
Packing List – For Warm and Cold Weather
OK – well we’ve talked about packing for cold weather and packing for the beach so the obvious next post – is what if you are combining several distinct climates on one trip. With some luck (or some planning) – you will have cold and then hot – or hot and then cold. This way you [...]
Packing List for Europe in December
Yup – really – we are flying straight out of Malaysia and into Europe in early December. I already wrote about my warm weather packing list which is frankly the easy part – so how to pack for the cold and potential snow of Europe? First I should probably point out that this [...]
Packing List – For The Beach or Warm Weather Vacation
Most people start their packing list with what clothing they want to take – to me its the least important part of my packing – I leave it to the end. Yup I’m a girl and I don’t think clothing is important – so shoot me! Frankly I don’t need to wear nice clothes to [...]
Should I Take A Laptop Traveling?
As I work online for a living I need a laptop when traveling – but your mileage may vary. You need to step back though and work out what you’d actually use the laptop for? The world is full of Internet cafes – so they may be a reasonable alternative if all you want to [...]
Packing Lists – Sensible Ones This Time
Its been a while since I have done a lot of reading of travel blogs – but this has now all changed and after finding some woeful examples packing lists I then discovered some pretty sensible ones. But I admit they are both packing lists that fit my style of travel – so I should [...]
World’s Stupidest Packing Lists
I have travelled a great deal and basically – unless I am doing competitive dancing – (not a joke I do) – I take less and less. Even was I young and fit I couldn’t be arsed carrying around a 80litre pack – now I am older and less fit – I am even less [...]
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