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Wot, no travels?

Posted in General, tagged on August 9, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

It’s been a while…. The trouble with writing a Travel Blog is that if you’re not travelling, then there’s no blogging.

There will be some new posts soon, however. Next week I’ll be on a family holiday to South Devon; that may or may not result in a post or two. Then in mid-September I’ll be off on a train journey to Cornwall – I’ve never been to Penzance – and Devon – another place I’ve never been to, Exeter. That trip should definitely result in some posts. And in early October Val & I are off to Washington DC and Virginia for a week and a half. This will be Val’s first trip to the US for almost 15 years, and I shall enjoy returning to DC and the Shenandoah Valley area of Virginia.

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Packing Cubes

Posted in General on May 5, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

IMG_0736I bought a couple of sets of packing cubes before the trip to New York, and I have to say I’m a convert. In the context of that trip – staying at five different places across eight nights – they made life much easier. Instead of constantly having to sort through piles of clothes and get them in and out of the suitcase, I just pulled out a single packing cube and then got what I needed out of that. As the trip continued I did some swaps between cubes as I needed to separate worn clothes from clean, but that was easy.

There are some trips when they wouldn’t make much sense, perhaps. They might be less use on a cruise, for example, where you’d be in the same cabin for up to fourteen nights and you might well be hanging up all the clothes you need on the first day. But even here, they might well help the initial job of packing.

I bought these and these from Lakeland. In the first set, the largest bag is big enough to take a number of folded-over shirts, up to half-a-dozen. (In fact, the more items you can get into them, the better – they’re held more firmly that way.) The smaller bags in that set were used for pj’s and underwear. In the second set, the shoe bags in the second set (the ones with the drawstrings) were especially useful.

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