On Tuesdays, Don’t Stop Living highlights the top travel essentials as you backpack round the globe!
I’m pretty sure I’m an exception to a lot of backpackers and travellers out there with regards to my toiletry bag. I NEVER travel with Shower Gel. (OK, unless I get given it FREE in a hotel or hostel 😉 ). For this reason and from what you are about to read, my toiletry bag…
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No matter how long or short a trip you are on, or even where you are going, an extremely handy thing to have is a first aid kit. On long trips I always carry my own custom built first aid kit, and for shorter trips, I take the essentials that I think I’ll need. It…
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iPod. A word I didn’t have a clue what it meant 10 years ago and suddenly, it’s become a travel essential for me. I was a walkman boy – I owned a tape (cassette) walkman player in the 1990s and I took it travelling with me everywhere, I even upgraded to another travelling tape player…
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Today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials this week is all about having a base on your travels. Although I travel light when I actually travel, I often have travel books, warm clothes and souvenirs which I pick up from my travels. These can be a pain to cart around everywhere with you so something I have relied…
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Today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials focuses on the very thing we now rely on in this digital age – photos and videos! And the need to have them saved, stored, uploaded and backed up. With this in mind, portable hard drives have become an absolute travel essential for me. Indeed this post has pros and cons…
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Today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials is on Travel Guide Books – I live by them!! I always carry at least one of them at any given time, and yes, it is normally Lonely Planet – though I also use local guidebooks (especially in China) and have bought Rough Guides and Berlitz guides before. Despite loving the…
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Today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials concentrates on sun cream. Yes I call it “sun cream” but you might also know it as any one of the following: – sunscreen – sun lotion – sun block – sun tan lotion – sun oil Call it what you want, it’s pretty essential for us as we jaunt around…
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I’m not sure how long a post I can actually write about a bar of soap, but I gave up travelling with shower gel and any kind of liquid soap about 4 years ago in favour of a tiny bar of soap. I haven’t looked back since. It wasn’t just the idea of not being…
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You might have read my previous Tuesday’s Travel Essentials from a few months back on Insect Repellent or my advice on getting a Yellow Fever Certificate. I’m prone to getting insect bites everywhere I go and I always carry insect repellent, even to countries you wouldn’t think were at risk. However using repellent is one thing,…
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Time for the latest Tuesday’s Travel Essentials again. Getting visas becomes a regular part of your travels and therefore a handy tip to save time, money and effort is to always carry passport photos. Personally I carry between 12 – 15 of them at any one time. They take up only a small amount of…
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