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items As a long time traveller and having spent many of those years as a digital nomad, I have certain things I always pack and/carry with me in the cabin. I have perfected travelling after a lot of trial and error. Now I can share with you what works the ...
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Travel essentials and travel hacks
Travel essentials and travel hacks
Including my selection of fillable neck pillows for different budgets. One of my best travel hacks. 😁
I never travel without a fillable neck pillow now. If you want to pack some extra clothes and your carry-on is already full, get one of these and keep it always around your neck or clipped to your carry on when in the airport. In the flight, use it a...
Fillable Neck Pillow - Etsy
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Here’s another fillable neck pillow to fill it up with clothes for travelling. It saves space in your luggage and you can carry it on your neck when boarding. 😁 Genius.
portable travel neck pillow clothing fillable pouch
This is a good inflatable travel pillow but this one is NOT fillable.
portable u shaped inflatable (not fillable) travel pillow pink neck support
Buy a pack of four air tags and place them INSIDE your carry-on, small item, cross-body sling bag, and one on yourself (that’s for a family member or friend to track you, especially if you travel by night in a train, coach, or bus. If you also have a...
Apple AirTag (4-Pack) Silver MX542LL/A / MX542AM/A - Best Buy
Hard suitcases are more secure than canvas or soft ones. They can’t be cut, zippers are usually stronger, and some come with double locker. Put a few large stickers on your suitcases to personalise them and spot them quickly on the carrousel belt and...
Best Luggage Sets - Best Buy
Airport wrapping too expensive or unavailable? No problem! Buy some of these wrapping film rolls to do your own homemade suitcase wrapping hack. Make sure you wrap the suitcase with several layers. Then use sellotape to wrap around the film for extra...
shrink wrap film - Best Buy
A sling cross-body bag is an absolutely must for any traveller. Here you keep your passport, credit cards, money if you carry some, keys, your phone, a lip gloss, and some sweets to promote saliva formation during take off and landing, so your ears d...
Sling & Crossbody Bags - Best Buy
Earplugs are essential when you travel, especially if you want to sleep at some point or simply get annoyed after hours of continuous noise. They are a must to wear for take off and landing to protect your ears from cabin pressure. Pop a couple of pa...
earplugs - Best Buy
If you sometimes check-in your carry on, the best is hard shell one. If your carry on is never checked-in, any carry-on that complies with the airline’s size limitations will be alright.
Carry On Luggage - Best Buy
A backpack with wheels is a fantastic carry-on. It’s convenient and great to carry as backpack in cities where you could have trouble walking with anything g with wheels such as Istanbul where I learned this lesson. Just check the dimensions to compl...
backpack with wheels - Best Buy
A large scarf is for me a travel essential. Silk will keep you warm if you’re cold and cool if you’re hot. Keep this with you in the flight and use it as a blanket, a scarf, or around your shoulders if you feel chilly. It doesn’t take much space or w...
Mulberry Silk Scarf Women - Etsy
I love my portable travel mug/kettle! Great when you have spend hours at the airport, a train, or coach. You can use it as water bottle, you can boiled water in it anywhere and make tea or coffee on the go, you can boil eggs, and cook a portion of po...
Travel Tea Kettle - Best Buy
Sunglasses are good for any season. They are not only good to protect your eyes from the sun. When I sleep in the flight, I wear my sunglasses instead of using an eye mask, it’s one less thing to pack. They are great in windy cities, they make you lo...
Sunglass Hut® Online Store | Sunglasses for Women
A cashmere wrap or large scarf it’s another travel essential in the cabin or when when travelling by train or coach. You can use it to wrap yourself and sleep warm and cosy when it gets chilly in the cabin or elsewhere. You can wear it as a scarf in ...
Cashmere wraps - Etsy
Get a good padlock for each of you suitcases, including your cabin bag if you are going to put it in the overhead compartment. There are recent cases of thieves stealing from luggage placed in the overhead compartment. Keep your bags locked at all ti...
tsa approved luggage locks - Best Buy
Avoid overpriced airport and airplane food/snacks which are highly unhealthy by carrying your own food and snacks in an insulated travel lunch bag. The bag is insulated but you can also pack your other essentials here and take this as your personal i...
Insulated travel lunch bag
Take all your favourite books with you on a Kindle. When you have lots of hours to kill during your travels one of the best things to do is to read. A Kindle will be your best companion and will take very little space in your personal item.
Take your books to your travels on a Kindle
Forget about check-in bags and travel hassle-free with a carry-on only. This vacuum compression backpack comes with a pump and you can pack double of what you normally would fit in it. Just make sure to test the weight on your back so you don’t overd...
Vacuum compression backpack - carry-on
