Travel Tips: Don't leave home without them
Written by: Kat

Say you've just arrived in a foreign country where no one speaks your language. (For me it was France). There's people everywhere yet 'you feel like you're all alone in the faceless crowd'. My recommendation for combatting this feeling is to take with you a couple of your favorite CDs and portable CD Player. Get to your hotel, curp up on the bed, close your eyes and listen for awhile; you'll feel better in no time.

Eating familiar foods can also help with the aforementioned problem. Find a fastfood chain you love, for example: Mcdonalds; 'Big Mac' is the same in every language.

Always travel with a bottle of water. Airconditioning on planes really dry out your sinuses, even when you're at your destinatino water can be hard to find and very expensive. It's extremely important to stay hydrated.

Always travel with good shoes, this is indefinably important.

If you're allotted a maximum weight for your suitcacse try to have your carry on luggage virtually empty when you're leaving your country. That way as you buy things on your trip you can put them in your carry on and know your suitcase has stayed at the same weight. Never fill your suitcase when you're leaving home; weigh it before you leave for the airport. You'll always return with more things.

Read carefully what customs will and won't allow into the country; you can't afford to make any mistakes.

Never transpot all your money in the same bag. It's the 'Don't carry all your eggs in the same basket' wisdom. If something happens to one bag you'll still have money in the other. The same goes with having some clothes in your carry on gear. If your suitcase disappears you'll still have a change of clothes.