The first series I ever wrote was about you should pack this (formerly Useful Travel Items): all those bits and pieces that make getting around or getting outside easier or more comfortable. This is equipment, this is packing, this is electronics, this is the closest I come to “travel hacks” (get a pouch for all your documents, get a native European multi-USB hub and get a dry bag).
These are all things I’ve bought myself (or been given for my birthday or Christmas, I guess) which I’ve used and decided are good enough to be worth adding to the list of “things other people may find useful” so if it’s here, it’s because I’ve genuinely liked it and think you could benefit from it.
In today’s third instalment of my Useful Travel Items series, we have velvet leggings! I am a master of multiple layers for cold places. Thermals, t-shirts, shirts, jackets, fleeces, coats – I like to be warm. But it’s harder to apply the same layering principle to your legs – by the time you reach three… More Useful Travel Items: velvet leggings
I’m gaining quite the little collection of travel bracelets – it’s got to the point where it’s not actually that comfortable to wear them all. I wear a watch any time I’m out of the house, a big chunky metal one, and I don’t like wearing bracelets on the same wrist because of the way they… More Useful travel items: bracelets
I’m a big fan of GoToob travel bottles by Human Gear. I bought a three-pack of the large (88ml) size a number of years ago. I’ve honestly lost count of how many years ago but I’m fairly certain I took them to Lithuania in 2011 and I don’t think they were new then. So they… More Useful travel items: GoToobs
There are plenty of things I regard as travel essentials and every now and then I’ll do a post on the subject. Today it’s waterproofing your stuff. For general waterproofing stuff, drybags are your best friends. Ortlieb make a huge variety of ultra-tough specialist drybags but mine are Exped, because that’s what my local outdoors… More Travel Essentials: waterproofing