Useful Travel Tips - TIWIK #5

1. Always take a few empty plastic bags with you: the time will come when you need to pack a wet towel/bikini in a rush or wonder where to put your dirty laundry.

2. Travel with two credit cards. When you lose/break/hit the withdrawal limit on your card, you’ll still have an emergency solution.

3. Get a local SIM card or a prepaid international package from your phone service provider. Avoid the monstrous mobile phone bill upon return.

4. If your old phone is still working, keep it and recycle it as your loosable/breakable travel phone: phones tend to disappear during trips — or to be found at the bottom of a cup full of water the morning after a party.

5. Eat fruit and vegetables. Fatty comfort food is always what you crave on the road; but your body needs to be fed some vitamins once in a while!

6. Wear nail polish. When opportunities to wash are limited, those little patches of colour on your hands and feet will make you feel so much better about yourself!

7. Pack a head torch. Localising your pyjamas in your bag without waking up your dorm-mates, finding the toilets at night, avoiding to step on a slug while walking in the dark barefoot (yes, that happened): it will make so many things way easier.

8. Carry a small drink opener in your bag. Or learn how to open bottle drinks with a ring or spoon.

9. Always carry some water with you.

0. Pack tampons. Pack tissues that double up as emergency toilet paper.