Note:  I am not being paid by Crocs for this review. This is an independent thumbs up!

When I first came across Crocs I really wasn’t a fan.  I couldn’t understand what all the excitement was about and didn’t have any thought of buying any of those weird plastic shoes with holes.  But last year in good old Strongsville Ohio, the local Crocs shop had a buy 2 pairs get one...

Here is the list of camping equipment that we have acquired in order to camp around the UK and Europe: 

Tent                                                       130                         Millets

Sleeping bags x 4                              112

Camp mats                                         40

Single fitted sheet for mat           2.87 x 4                 ASDA

Egg...

One month of travel, two kids and three countries. We left Australia with 2 large backpacks and 4 smaller day packs between the four of us.  Did we bring enough ‘stuff’?  Yes. Did we bring too much? No, I don’t think so. There isn’t anything that I have come across yet that I think I must ditch at the next opportunity; except for the bottle of shampoo that leaked twice and...

I am sure every person who has every travelled anywhere at all has ummd and aaahd over what they will take with them and what they will carry it all in. As soon as the idea of RTW was tossed around I began googling backpacks etc.  Holy mackerel! A whole new world opened up. All our travel to date had been with suitcases.

In my first overseas journey to the USA as a 17 year...

Invested in a Panasonic Lumix TZ10 in September.  Happy with my purchase after much research. Didn’t want anything too big and fancy; just something that could take a great photo the majority of the time. The camera accompanied me to America for my two weeks away and has performed nicely so far. I am still yet to fully understand how to work the thing!

Here is the techno stuff.  Again, all comments and suggestions welcome. If you have been there and done that with RTW travel and technology, then share your wisdom please!  I’ve added colour to the items we have already assembled.

The extra stuff you can’t do without …. or maybe we can?  What do you think? I’ve added colour to the items we have already assembled for the journey.

Here is our list of toiletries. Some might disagree with the hair dryer and some makeup but my photos will look a whole lot better for it! I’ve shaded in blue that we already have assembled.

Here it is – the current version of the Baigrie Family packing list (in parts).  This list was compiled by researching the gear lists from a number of great blogs and using my good old commonsense.  I welcome all comments, suggestions and recommendations! I’ve coloured the items we already have.

After travelling to two conferences recently with the world’s heaviest chunkiest laptop, I was determined that whatever computer we took RTW with us had to be light and compact.  Choosing a netbook was like anything related to this adventure so far – it involved many hours of consultation and online research. Finally I came to the conclusion that the bargain at Myer was the...