Getting There & Around

Travelling Light: How To Travel For 3 Months With Less Than 30kg Between Two People

Photo by Naomi Ibuki
One of the recurring themes in the comments around here is the fact that so many of you are struggling to decide which books to take and which books to leave.
My advice? Don’t do what I did the first time round and lug a hulking great business/marketing manual around (all 2kg of [...]


LIP Links for 08.01.08

Athletic-Minded Traveler
This web travel guide provides specific recommendations for things like fitness-focused hotels, running routes, lap pools, healthy places to eat. Focused only on cities and currently only in the US and Canada but with some UK and European ones being added soon.
Top 14 Laptop Bags & Sleeves
You don’t have to sacrifice practicality and function [...]


TripIt - Organise your travel plans in one place

I’ve been following the development of this very nifty-looking website for a while now. TripIt lets you forward all your travel plans (in the form of confirmation emails) and then picks out all the information for you and stores it in one handy place which it uses to build a master itinerary for you with [...]


More LIP Tools For Your LIP Trips

Some more useful services & tools for your LIP life…
Tipped - the UK version of Yelp which is a review service to share tips on the best local places in your area.
Orbitz Updates - the popular travel company, has released a new, potentially very useful service for getting real time updates from other travellers about [...]