📱 Electronic Toys
📱 Phone – Tool, not a toy
Buy a small, tough phone with long battery life, not a portable TV. 🤳💀
If you can, delete all the useless crap — especially the battery-eating monsters. (Yeah, Facebook, I’m looking at you. 🦈⚡)
🗺️ Install offline maps before you leave.
I use Organic Maps — free, voice navigation, works even on a motorbike.
🖥️ Booking.com helps a lot on trips.
🌐 Sure, you can get roaming or an eSIM like Airalo for cheap internet almost anywhere…
…but being offline is actually a feature.
💡 Pro tip: less screen time = more real travel.
💻 Notebook – Only if you really need it
If you actually work on the road, take a small, light laptop — not a flying brick.
I carry mine in a neoprene sleeve reinforced with a plastic cutting board cut to the exact shape of the laptop.
Will it really save it? Who knows. But it makes me sleep better.
✈️ Pro tip: The less weight on your back, the longer you’ll enjoy the trip. But if you are digital nomad, then no discussion.
🔌 Adapter – Don’t be that guy with the wrong plug
If you’ve got a European plug, you’ll usually manage to make it work.
If you’ve got the UK plug… you’re screwed. That brick won’t fit anywhere.
And if you’re going to the US, don’t forget: 110 V.
Some chargers can handle it, some can’t — unless you enjoy the smell of burnt plastic, check before you plug in.
Bring a universal adapter and save yourself a lot of swearing.
