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LAVIINIA DHANAGUNAN
LAVIINIA DHANAGUNAN on the top 10 travel tips you may have never even heard of.
1. Make sure your suitcase is within your lifting capabilities. There´s nothing worse than heaving and grunting under excess weight... Rolling and bagging clothes to fit in twice as much seems a great idea. Except that while the items may fit, the suitcase will be too heavy to be lifted from the airport baggage carousel onto the bus or onto any surface for unpacking.
2. Never read "What to Pack" lists. They inevitably suggest an item or two that you never would have thought to bring. Find out what it is that you need and never leave home without regardless of what is advised. (See www.OneBag.com)
3. Do not accept the little gift packs some airlines give out. Sure it´s free but it takes up space. Who needs flimsy earplugs and extra eye masks? Be tough. Just say no.
4. Bring a book you don´t mind leaving behind. Never bring a library book. Not only will you have to take good care of it but you also have to lug it back. A cheap paperback is your best bet. You can even join www.bookcrossing.com and see who picks it up.
5. This tip is mostly for men but can also apply to women. Do not bring all shirts (tops) in the same shade. Blue is nice but no one will notice that one has micro stripes in red or that the other has tiny checks in grey. It all looks the same in a picture. Vary the colour scheme.
6. Never try to crack a joke with either a border guard or a French waiter. Both are humourless and can make your life miserable.
7. Never promise anyone back home a specific souvenir as you never know if you can really get it.
8. Never have raw oysters on an empty stomach and a half-hour before going for a boat ride on choppy waters.
9. If you rent a car with manual transmission, please try out every manoeuvre before heading down the highway. At a pit stop once, trying to reverse the car out of the parking spot in France was only possible thanks to a kind passer-by.
10. Finally, the last and most important tip: put your house keys in a safe and reachable place. Do not throw them to the bottom of the largest suitcase and then forget about them. The worst place to think about how to enter your house is when you are in a taxi, five minutes away. Leaning into the trunk of the taxi, searching through suitcases while your husband holds the umbrella over you, is not the best way to end a vacation.
Fighting about who has, or had, the keys is not pleasant either. The only one who gets a good story and laugh out of this experience is the taxi driver. Oh yes, it´s also very expensive to drive across the city to someone who´s holding your spare keys.
To read the full post, check out http://www.travellingbooky.com/top-ten-travel-tips/
Source : New Straits Times – 2 September 2010
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