Travel Insider Tip: I love picking up little independent travel guides for my home city that are based on interviews with locals – always makes you discover new corners of your hometown!
Kathi Kamleitner – WatchMeSee
Travel Insider Tip: Geocaching! Helps you discover so many hidden gems on your doorstep.
Claire Jessiman – Foodie Quine
Travel Insider Tip: Keep an eye on cheap accommodation offers and book something nice in a different part of town for a night.Sonja Bolger – Migrating Miss
Travel Insider Tip: I’ve been doing a lot of exploring in my home city right now. Always fun to play tourist at home or to dig a little deeper and find hidden gems.Kirstin McEwan – The Tinberry Travels
Travel Insider Tip: Take a walking tours, actually find out what the buildings stand for that you walk past every day!Gemma Armit – TwoScots Abroad
Try out minimalism- Reduce your wardrobe, remember how much simpler life is when you travel. Why not try pairing your wardrobe down to something closer to the contents of your suitcase. Sort out a seasonally appropriate wardrobe that can be mixed and matched to get you through your everyday- and put the rest into storage until the seasons change. Or try reducing other ‘stuff’ you keep at home –
Travel Insider Tip: I spend most of my time in the same area, so during the weekends I like to head to a complete opposite side of town. Then I just stroll around, discover the area, find a good pub etc. I like seeing new sides of the city I live in.Christina Sunneklep – Cava for Lunch
Know Your Passport: When you are travelling you always make it a priority to know where your passport is, and when the expiry date is. If you make this a priority in your at home life as well you won’t be sorry. Trust me you don’t have to go far to find a story about a lost or expired passport and a ruined trip. Don’t be the story.
Travel Insider Tip: Find your nearest hotel concierge and chat to them to find out what they recommend in the city for tourists – it’ll likely be things you’ve never considered, and they know all the best tips on how to get cheap/good tickets for things, and local events that are happening.
Julia MacGregor – Fizz and Pheasant
If you have kids or babies why not try out these tips to get that travel feeling:
Throw out your routine – I know it is a scary idea. Dinner, bath, bed is my life raft, but when you are travelling with kids you have to accommodate all sorts of changes to routine, and everyone survives, and sometimes we even have fun. So at home why not: Go for a walk after dinner, eat out, sleep on a camp bed in the lounge room – who knows some of it might get incorporated into a new routine.
Travel Insider Tip: Every few weeks or so when bedtime gets boring and we’ve no real trips planned, we ‘camp out’ overnight in the sitting room. The 6 yr old chooses the country, and we spend the night under a selection of bedding on the sofas. Most recently, Antarctica was the ‘in’ place, so we put together a pick-up tea (a picnic by any other name) of tuna, prawns and ice cream – yep, we interpret local foods very widely -and ate it in our camp with March of the Penguins as background. If you left the room, you donned your hat and scarf and waterproofs (imaginary wellies out of deference to the lady in the flat below!) and braved the polar bears (played by a giant papier mache cat and Clifford the Big Red Dog)… Next time, apparently, we’re going to Denmark, but given LEGOLAND appears to be the real draw, that’ll be doubly interesting!
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These are great tips for living life to the fullest! Thanks for putting this together.
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Thanks Nastasya. Glad to hear it connected with you. Do let me know if you try out any of the tips! Or if you have any more of your own.
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I really like this post, Sandy! Some great tips here. Glad that at the moment there are no extra costs for roaming in the EU. As I work from home I definitely like to 'throw out routine' sometimes – It's important to have a day off and do something different. And as a kid I loved sleepovers and midnight feasts, which I knew of from books about girls at posh boarding schools! Lovely to take a break from the routine – how is it getting the kids back into routine or do they understand that the holiday is time-related, not a matter of changing location! Great life lessons there too.
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Thanks Maria – glad it resonated. I think as regards to getting the kids in and out of routine – it is a good way to remind us all that life is big. As you say 'Great life lessons' to be had.
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