Travel Gear Reviews

Strange Lands Rating – 4/5 Product review – Pacsafe’s Daysafe 200. I’m a worrier. I’m the type of guy that feels the need to check my pocket every 5 minutes to make sure my wallet’s still there. Standing out like sore thumbs as tourists in Asia, I’m on super-paranoid alert. Having my wallet or passport stolen would be a nightmare. I don’t want to imagine the annoyances I’d have to experience if it ever happened. In Korea we grew complacent. Compared to much of Asia, the crime there is miniscule. Having to carry our laptops and cameras with us while travelling, we knew we’d need extra security so we could ease the worry slightly. Even in Malaysia, while swimming in the sea I was very conscious of the fact that our...

Strange Lands Rating 4/5 Before hitting the road 2 years ago, we bought 2 Platy Soft Bottles – a 2 litre, and a 1 litre. Truth be told, until we came to Indonesia we had no reason to use them. Water by the bottle was always available. Then again, we weren’t hiking or doing many outdoor activities at the time. On the few occasions we did go hiking, we came across a natural spring, but without a spare bottle (because we didn’t want to pack out our bags with empty bottles) we couldn’t contain any of it. The beauty of the Platy isn’t that it’s a water bottle; there are enough of those to go around. The benefit is that it is light and small. You can easily roll it up into a small bundle. The other plus is that, unlike the thin bottles that come...