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TOP 3: Feeling good on board

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The ultimate goal is to feel and look less hagged when you land. With these top 3 trump cards you can arrive at your destination ready to go and get ’em a little faster.

1) STOMACH IT

Two key ingredients to settle the stomach are ginger and salt. I tend to eat a bag of ready salted crisps pre-flight, but ginger biscuits do the trick too. This controls travel sickness and levels out your system for a gentle flight.

2) AGUA

You can buy a large bottle of water once you’re through check in. Although on-flight you’re entitled to as many cups as you wish, a bottle ensures immediate rehydration and lots of it.

3) COMFORT

The temperature alternates frequently and your destination will probably be of a different climate to your departure. Flights usually provide a blanket, however, make sure you have socks and jumper at the ready for that layering moment during flight and landing.

PRODUCT: Best Read of the Year, The Backpacker by John Harris

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Before setting off on my travels I purchased an array of books that wrote on the subject of travel… cliché I know, but there we are.

…it will nudge some part of you that is usually told to behave.

On Amazon I found The Backpacker by John Harris and this has  become one of my favourite reads of the year, if not one of my favourite’s full stop.

You begin by hating the author and then very quickly fall in love with his ability to explore the world on almost no means at all, expect for a few good friends and a very small conscious.

Once I’d finished the book I realised two things: Firstly, I felt like such a do-gooder and almost immediately wanted to do something reckless and impulsive, but then I realised I would get caught and it would all end terribly and this is why I don’t do those things. Secondly, the author must of changed his name because he commits some hilarious and jaw dropping misdeeds throughout Australasia. It’s also impossible to find a photo of him on Google.

Harris’ novel is witness to those things you hear people tell tales of: “this happened to a friend of a friend” – but they actually happen to him and with every page you read it will nudge some part of you that is usually told to behave.

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