My Travel Essentials

Hello!

Ok, so today I'm VERY excited so I thought I would show my travel essentials to try and relieve some of this enthusiasm. My family and I travel to Ibiza next week and I think I'm the only one excited about it at all. Although, that may be because this year we are being joined by one of my bestest friends! 

I am beyond looking forward to it...

So, here we have my travel essentials. These aren't necessarily tailored to any specific type of holiday or travel experience, so these are just the general things that I take for any trip.  

I usually like to take quite a big bag as a carry-on or whatever, so I've used my satchel for this. It's a leather square-ish bag from Scaramanga and its pretty much perfect. You could probably use it for anything: I used it as a schoolbag for the past two years, but it could easily be used as a handbag or carry-on bag, or maybe even a briefcase type thing, as it's definitely big enough to fit a laptop.

BZRK - Michael Grant

I always bring a book (more like four) with me when I travel, especially on long car or plane journeys because I find that theres something about holidays that just make me want to read loads. I do usually read at home, but not much and not very often, unless I find a REALLY good book and I read it in a matter of hours. Anyway, this is the book that I will be bringing next week in my hand luggage. I'm already halfway through it and so far I really like it. It's one of those darker, creepy books (I know, I'm rubbish at describing things...) and its still sort of all a mystery to me, but it's got to one of those bits where it starts to get soooo good and you think it'll end too soon and theres still loads of the book left and you have no idea where its all gonna end up. Yeah. It's one of those.

Another essential, probably not just for me, is my purse, or some kind of money-storing-device. My purse is from Fossil and I love it to pieces! It's very handy, with a slot compartment to hold your phone on the inside, which makes it perfect for travelling. Its one of those great purses with so many slots and compartments for cards and money and coins and it basically caters for everything you may need in a purse.  It also has a detachable wrist strap, which is also very handy, but I've found that when you take the strap off, theres no zip bit to hold to make it easy to open, it just leaves a little loop, which is quite tiny if you have big fingers like me. However, thats the only flaw that I have found with the purse, its just so pretty to stare at, even the inside is a fab purple colour.

The next things that I always like to travel with are my beautiful notebooks. I think they are Paperblanks, but I bought them both in a local gift shop. I bought the smaller one first and I spent quite a while trying to talk myself out of wanting it, because if I'm honest, they're not cheap notebooks and I have limited notebook funds. Anyway, I ignored my senses and bought it anyway. The second one was slightly easier to reason myself into buying. I mean, its called 'Black Moroccan' and I was going to Morocco at the time so I simply couldn't resist...

 Anyway, they are incredibly good quality, and they have that lovely thick paper that just feels really good to turn. You can get them lined or unlined, but I bought both of these unlined because I like to draw and stuff and lines get in the way. The big book has a funky fold over magnetic flap to keep it shut, and protects the pages from dust and crumbs when its shoved to the bottom of my bag.

And finally, we have some general travel bits and bobs...

Phone and Headphones: a true essential for me. I hate not having my phone accessible at all times. Its not that I'm always using it, but I like to know that its there so that if I need it, I've got it. I always pack loads of stuff to do in hand luggage, but I usually end up listening to music and staring out the window the whole way, and I end up pointlessly carting around loads of heavy, and wholly unnecessary books and pencil cases and all sorts. 

Hand cream: This hand cream is the coconut Body Shop one, but it comes in a diddy squeezy tube, which makes it fab for flying because of the restrictions with the amount of liquid you can travel with. I always like to have hand cream on me,  although I don't usually use it, my mum and brother get really dry hands and always need it, so its always useful to have.

Sunglasses: Of course, this depends on where you are travelling to, but if you are going to a nice sunny place, they're probs quite important to protect your lil eyes from the sun. I like to keep sunglasses in hand luggage instead of in a suitcase because I get really worried that they'll get crushed and I'll unpack to find smashed up glass in with all of my clothes and stuff. (I don't know whether this is a completely irrational fear or not???) These groovy green frames are also from Fossil.

Lipbalm: I ALWAYS have lip balm on me because I'm one of those people who can't stand dry and chapped lips. Always gotta be prepared! This Eos Tangerine lip balm is currently, and will probably forever be, my favourite lip balm. It doesn't really smell orangey, or like anything recognisable, but I quite like the smell, and its great for hydrating the kissers.

Water: Water is very important to have wherever you are, and I have recently discovered Voss water. I had always thought that this was incredibly expensive and not readily available in the UK, but I spotted it in Tesco and had to get it. I got it for £1.30, which is expensive for a water bottle, but much cheaper than I was expecting, and its a glass bottle, so I have been reusing it over and over. I don't know what it is about drinking water from a bottle, but sometimes I hate it and sometimes I love it. This happens to be one of the bottles that I love and I end up refilling it like 20 times a day.

However, a water bottle like this may not be allowed on flights, because of the restrictions, but its definitely good for car journeys.

So there you have it! All of my travel essentials!

M

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