I Never Leave Home Without it...
Posted Monday, May 26, 2008, 6:34 PM by Lonely Planet
Long-gone are the days when travel meant tying your belongings neatly in a hankerchief, securing it to the end of a stick and casually slinging it over your shoulder.
These days travel means gadgets, and travel gadgets can be highly technical, including essentials like MP-whatsits on mobile hoo-hahs, with GPRS thing-oes.
Do you have a favourite travel gadget? What do you never travel without?
Jenni Kauppi
Labels: Gadgets, Technology
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Nokia N82 mobile phone. Since I started using the built in GPS navigation feature and the online access to look up train and bus schedules. Also, the 5mp camera comes in handy.
Simple. A bandana.
A thousand uses from routine wearing on the head to filling in when you have an upset stomach and no toilet paper.
Always, always, a bandana.
You absolutely do not want to be in a foreign country without access to personal info and a way to access health records and personal contact info. It does not make you a wimp to carry a gadget or 2. Robin
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I would have to say my cellphone, but on these days it seems like an essential item for any traveler.
Having a credit card is a must when traveling. I have traveled all over the world and my Visa has got me out of some tight jams.
I don't leave home without my Garmin GPS device. Even if I don't use the maps for directions to my final destination, I use it to find restaurants, shopping locations and tourist info.
I don't have any travel gadgets, but I do always bring a travel guide with me to whichever countries I'm visiting, and I don't feel like a weenie green-thumb tourist for packing around a travel guide with me everywhere I go!
Bwahahaha!!
I took a solo jaunt to Europe a couple of years ago, being 18 and on the most stringy of shoestrings the only gadget I took was an analog camera that was my birthday present.
No credit card, no phone, no GPS! Which also meant no batteries to charge. I didn't even bother with a guidebook. Most of western Europe will speak English if you're polite and when I got to Slovenia I just winged it. They all had a grand time trying to teach me Slovenian anyhow!
My only real essential would be a journal. It makes remembering the trip 5 years down the track so much better.
I probably won't bother with my phone next time either, nor a credit card. At least now I know how to stick to a budget. Although a VISA debit card might be helpful. And I might take my old PDA as it has translation dictionaries and unit conversion. Mobile net access and GPS is just cheating though. Half the joy of travelling is getting lost!
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