So… I’ve somehow ended up shortlisted for a Northern Blog Award for this here travel blog! What is going on in the world?! I don’t know how this has happened. But obviously now here I am begging you, my lovely readers, for your vote (and not sounding at all desperate, right?).
Here’s a bit of background to it and how you can vote for me. If you want to. No pressure. I just won’t ever speak to you again if you don’t. Ahem…
Here’s a few tips for what to pack for a spring city break. Typically, it’s going to be warm-ish in the day and bloody cold at night and RyanAir somehow expect you to cope with this MADNESS within 15kg. I don’t normally do packing guides but I was just pondering what a faff packing is in changeable spring weather.
You know that thing when it’s the week before you go away and you empty the entire contents of your wardrobe all over your bed yet still you have NOTHING to wear? So you end up chucking all sorts of mismatched crap into your suitcase? And then you get to where you’re going and nothing is right?
Yeah, that.
That’s something you don’t need to do. I promise. Sort of. To be honest, I still find packing hard in spring (or autumn, TBH). But we always tend to do a city break in April/May so I’ve learned some things over the years. If this helps anyone with packing, I’ll feel I’ve done some kind of heroic good deed for the world.
Right. Here are my tips…
Okay, here it is: a guide to how to pack a suitcase efficiently, without wanting to give up on life and burn all your clothes. Running a travel blog called Pack The Suitcases, this was always an inevitable post for me wasn’t it?
I’d like to think I’ve nailed the best way to pack a suitcase over many, many years of trips and I really don’t pack light at all so I have had to learn how to cram it all in. Nine times out of 10, I manage to do it without crying/screaming these days, which must mean I’ve learned something. I even got a full 2 weeks’ worth of every-temperature-covered clothing into my suitcase for Japan and nobody died.
So here are my packing tips and what to do…
Here’s a roundup of all our travels in 2017 to finish off the year: the best, the worst, the tastiest.
It might give you some ideas about where to go (and where to avoid) for the coming year ahead…
Are you looking for some Christmas present ideas for travel lovers in your life? Here’s a little gift guide that might help.
Every travel blogger seems to be doing one of these gift guides so I thought I’d jump onto the bandwagon. As someone who loves travel, I’d be made up with any of these things. In fact, I already have quite a few of them. So I can vouch that they actually are useful and good things to have. Also, I want to assure you that this list does not contain scratch maps, novelty passport cases or anything else that’s been done to death on travel blogs…
Happy birthday, Pack The Suitcases! You’re one today. Here are some travel blogging tips I’ve learnt over the past year since we gave birth to you…