Can you use apple cider vinegar for sunburn? Or will you end up smelling like a packet of Walkers salt and vinegar crisps?
It’s not a good look, is it? The first week into your perfect vacation and there you are with bright red cheeks and scarlet shoulders that send you into orbit if a piece of clothing brushes them.
Remember when rain ponchos were the ugliest thing in the world?
Long, plastic, see-through monstrosities that only someone very desperate to keep dry would wear?
Well, lucky for us travellers, things have moved along in the world of ponchos. Now we are searching out the best rain ponchos on the market so we too can stay dry and look utterly stylish too!
Why do you need a travel checklist?
Because there is only so much information you can store in your brain at once.
That’s why.
Whether you are going on vacation or taking off on a long-term worldwide travel adventure, your head will be whizzing with everything you need to do beforehand, so what better way to combat that than to use a travel checklist?
Let’s jump in.
Life is too short to travel to the same place as every other tourist.
While I love Paris, Rome and New York as much as anyone else, there is no greater pleasure than discovering the more unique travel destinations that are hiding, (mostly undiscovered) around the world.
Those destinations are perfect for people like you and me, who take extended vacations; those who travel on a budget but still want the full bifters when it comes to experience.
If I tell you this travel hack, you have to promise not to tell my kids.
Over the years I have discovered some valuable airport hacks that make traveling by plane all the more pleasurable. Even on a budget.
If you are a skinflint like me, then you will like this post.
Although I can’t advise you on how to get into VIP lounges or receive upgrades – ( if need to know how to find cheap flights, though, I’m your gal), I’m currently backpacking the world with my husband and two teenagers, airline staff value their jobs, there’s no way they would ever risk putting us lot up into first class.
Not with the way my son’s feet smell. (more…)
I’m Liz, and this is my family.
I do Travel. I do Wine. I do being a mum to big kids. Sometimes I do all three at the same time.
I don’t do hormones. Or looking perfect for Instagram. Or dieting.
Read more about who I am and why we should be friends on our about us page.