Useful Travel Tips - TIWIK #7

1. Don’t pack just one pair of jeans though. Because if it’s continuously cold, you won’t be able to wash them as you’d have nothing to wear on laundry day.

2. Never throw your camera in your bag unprotected, even if it’s a basic point-and-shoot.

3. If you snack on sugar, you’ll be crashing two hours later. Grab a banana instead.

4. Pack some serious moisturiser when you’re going to the snow, or your skin will get dry and feel unbearably tight. Ouch.

5. Don’t trust anyone offering you transport when you walk out of the airport. Airports generally have a transport information desk that will point you in the right direction.

6. Trust your intuition: when you detect a dodgy vibe, get yourself out of there, even if you don’t precisely know why.

7. Keep up with your meditation or quiet-time routine. Yes, it’s hard. But you need some sort of grounding, especially if you’re travelling long-term.

8. Take care of yourself: when you start getting sick, your body is sending a signal. Do something about it, or it will linger, get worse, and ruin the rest of your holidays.

9. Pack sunglasses. Even in winter — the glare of a grey sky can be annoyingly blinding.

10. If you haven’t ridden a bike in 8 years, don’t start again with a Vélib up a hill in the late-afternoon Paris traffic.