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Our Favorite Gear
Don't Leave Home Without These Items
Bose QC25
Noise Cancelling Headphones
Best value and best performing noise cancelling headphones, an almost essential item that will transform your air travel experience.
Amazon Kindle Fire Tablet
Our favorite is the 10" sized unit, but the 8" is worth considering if compactness is essential. Stunning value, and great for videos, music and books while traveling.
Briggs & Riley Suitcase
If you've ever had a suitcase break on a journey, you know how vital reliable luggage is and what a false economy cheap bags can be..
Luggage doesn't get any better than Briggs & Riley.
8-port USB Charger
For office, home, and traveling, this gets all your devices charged simultaneously and quickly.
Weekly Roundup, Friday 6 December, 2019
Good morning More a narrative type of roundup this week than the usual format. Yesterday was an interesting day – it was a general election in the UK. The Conservative Party under Boris Johnson, which
Travel Insider Christmas Gift Giving Guide Now Available
Hello, everyone After a long day, I’ve now completed this year’s Christmas Gift Giving Guide. I think it is the most comprehensive and extensive one yet, and I do hope you’ll find it interesting and
2019 Christmas Gift Giving Guide
Here’s a collection of items, ranging from under $10 to over $100, from the highest of high tech (digital audio players, cell phone signal boosters) to the lowest of low tech (belts with no metal
Weekly Roundup, Friday 6 December, 2019
Good morning What does a t-shirt have in common with a kitchen thermometer? What does a coin wallet have in common with a laser distance measuring tool? And what do any of these have in
Was the Pono Predestined to Fail?
The Pono player was a much talked about portable digital music player that was released in late 2014; with its parent company closing down three years later at the end of 2017. A fascinating history
Book Review : To Feel the Music
This is a fascinating and very approachable book about the success and failure of an American designed and developed high quality music player and the music delivery service it was integrated with. In 2012 the