Travel Essentials

Travel Essentials

I just spent the weekend travelling, you would have already known, because boredom and loneliness while on bus/car/train makes you constantly post on Social Media (no joke, this is how I know that my friends are travelling) but this was a no-internet journey and the welcome and the place to live kept being the same, but I’ll tell you more about it in the next days. And now that I am in Belgium, Leuven and I still have little to no idea of where things are and where am I supposed to be, and so there is not much that I can share from here yet, I thought I’d share what is completely essential for me while I travel. So, here we go: 1. Music DEFINITELY – nothing comes before this. When I travel alone I want to enjoy as much music as I can (usually I enjoy less, because the battery dies or some conversation with another travel buddy is overdue), but seriously, this is my main thing to keep me awake, to help me fall asleep, to make me ignore weird people, to make me smile while I am looking over the window. You get it – to everything. 2. Something to read Now this comes with the mood and with the journey’s length. Sometimes I go for a book, and sometimes a magazine will do. To be honest, this applies more when I fly because I cannot read on the bus/car. So it’s either in the train or plane, either while I am waiting in some lounge or station. 3. Water Ok, so this is more...