Your travel tips featured in Safe Travel Campaign
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Your travel tips could be featured an online downloadable leaflet on the Travel Rants site, in conjunction with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office’s “Know before you go” campaign, which aims to help ensure that British citizens stay safe and healthy during their travels. So if you have any great tips which could assist other Brits enjoy a trouble free trip here’s your opportunity.
Please leave your tips as comments on this blog post with your full name and if you have one, your website url. I’ll then forward your tips to Darren editor of Travel Rants.
My tips based on experience are:
1 Prepare your travel documents the day before travel. On my recent trip to Italy I was preparing the evening before departure and I couldn’t find my passport, we had plenty of time to search and my husband found it. It’ easy to mislay the credit card sized E11 that you should take with you when you travel to Europe. If you’re hiring a car, remember to take both parts of the new style driving licence.
2 Don’t carry all your cash and cards with you in one place e.g. handbag or bum bag. A few years ago my purse, containing all my cash and cards was stolen from my handbag in the underground in Milan. I was left penniless and had to borrow 10 euro from the hotel receptionist until my credit card company forwarded funds to me. Leave some cash in your hotel safe and/or stash some notes somewhere on your person e.g. your shoe, bra.
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June 10th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Just to confirm this is a Travel Rants leaflet, but the FCO will be providing the content. I’m waiting to hear back from the FCO with regard to their intentions for distribution.
June 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Thanks for the clarification Darren, I had misunderstood and thought that the Foreign and Commonwealth Office were publishing the online guide with the addition of some readers tips provided by Travel Rants.. I have now amended the blog post.
June 18th, 2008 at 7:18 am
I would have gone with:
Don’t carry your cash and credit cards in a purse, bum bag, wallet, pocket or backpack. When in Europe use a money belt. You are safer in most European cities than you are in most U.S. cities as far as violent crime is concerned, but more likely to be targeted by skilled pickpockets.
June 19th, 2008 at 11:34 am
Thanks for the tip, Chirs. The pickpockets in Europe are very skilled. I wasn’t even aware that anyone had been close to me when my purse was stolen from my handbag in Milan. In the Paris Metro my husband spotted a trying to pickpocket me.