On Tuesdays, Don’t Stop Living highlights the top travel essentials as you backpack round the globe!
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 Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Portable Hard Drives[…]
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 Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Travel Guide Books[…]
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 Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Sun Cream[…]
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 Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: A Bar of Soap[…]
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, Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Anti Malaria Tablets[…]
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 Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Passport Photos[…]
OK so you might have read my shocking story about doing a sh1t on a broccoli field. Or you might have been repulsed by it and deliberately avoided it – but when nature calls there isn’t a great deal we can do about it. That’s why today’s Tuesday’s Travel Essentials has to be on toilet Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Toilet Roll[…]
A Yellow Fever Certificate is not just essential, but compulsory in some countries. You need to get one before heading off on any kind of adventurous travel. You’ll be asked for your Yellow Fever Certificate at some airports and a few land border crossings. Don’t take any risks. Get your Yellow Fever Injection before you Read more about Tuesday’s Travel Essentials: Yellow Fever Certificate[…]