Travel Health and Safety

Useful Travel Medical Kit Items (With Kids)

We travelled full-time for over 6 years (with kids, mostly in Asia) and, yes, we all had minor health problems ...
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Finding Food for Kids While Travelling

We’ve fed our travelling children in some incredible travel destinations, in over 50 countries now. They’re still alive, still healthy ...
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Best Anti-Theft Travel Bags

When choosing a bag (a handbag, travel purse, daypack, or backpack) for travel or city use, most people consider security. ...
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Altitude in Tibet. High Passes and Diamox

So here’s the thing, Tibet is way, way high. Crazy high. Everyone knows that to trek in the Himalayas you’ll ...
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Why We Finally Got Rabies Vaccinations for Travel

We’ve been on the road well over 5 years now and finally we decided to get our rabies vaccinations. When ...
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What is Altitude Sickness – For First Time High Altitude Trekkers

I’m a biologist, my degree is in Physiology, I worked in hospital medical science for 20 years, I know a ...
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How Fit Do You Need to Be to Trek the Himalayas?

It may surprise you to know that you don’t need to be Ironman fit (as I am) to trek in ...
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How to Stay Fit and Healthy While Travelling?

Fit and healthy, two things people generally want to be, but does travel help you get fitter, or is the ...
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Getting Back to Fitness After 50

Around Christmas time, at home in Romania, we borrowed a friend’s hacksaw to try to cut my engagement ring off. ...
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How to Avoid Theft While Travelling

It happens, I can’t deny that. People get robbed when they travel. People also get robbed at home so is ...
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Best Smart Luggage and Bag Tracking Devices

Have you heard of smart luggage? I hadn’t until very recently, but it’s a “thing” a mind-blowingly amazing thing. The ...
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Handling Your Money in Thailand. Quick Guide and Tips

Thailand is one of the more tricky countries for travellers to handle their travel money at minimum cost. We normally ...
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Tips For Avoiding Mosquitos. Travel & Mosquitos

Many travellers encounter mosquitoes or mosquitos (both spellings are correct) as they travel in warm and tropical climates. We have ...
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Where Not to Save Money on Travel

There are ways to save money on travel that are great, a good idea, the best ways. But trying to ...
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Travel During Perimenopause

Perimenopause has been a roller-coaster ride for sure. When we left home in 2013 I already knew that I was in the ...
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Monkey Attack! Sri Lanka Photo Post

Monkeys are everywhere here in Sri Lanka. I’m sitting outside our room watching them right now. You may not see ...
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Anxiety, Palpitations, Perimenopause and MSG.

If you read my last post about Chef’s hospitalisation, you’ll know that I wasn’t feeling too good. I’d even asked ...
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Medical Dramas on Ko Phangan and Surgery on Ko Samui

This morning, 4 months into our trip, my husband is having emergency hernia repair surgery on Ko Samui. I’ve always said ...
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Travel Makes You Thinner!

Travel makes you wise, we all know that, and wisdom makes you sexier and cooler, but on a totally shallow ...
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Travel Vaccinations in Kuala Lumpur

This is for anyone out there, like me, who is stressing about travel vaccinations. The crazy cost of them in ...
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The Travel Vaccinations Drama.

I went to see my GP to talk travel vaccinations yesterday. I wish I hadn’t! I came away with a ...
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School Sores or Impetigo, a Horrible Tropical Disease.

We live in the tropics, Far North Queensland, we get horrible tropical diseases, more so, because we have children, adorable little ...
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