Last year 37 million pieces of luggage were lost worldwide. Once lost attempting to get bags back tends to be the stuff of nightmares too. Well now you can be sure to locate your bag when the airline can’t. Trace Me Luggage Tracker is a durable tag that securely fastens to your suitcase and sports a unique serial number and barcode. This ensures that wherever in the world your bag has ended its lonely travels it will wing its way back to you and only you. No matter where your bag lands the local handling official or police can scan your barcode or read your registration number and your name and details will pop up on the property ownership register at www.immobilise.com. You will then receive a text and email enabling you to tell the airline exactly where your bag is!

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As anyone who has ever tried to jam more than a few days worth of kit into a rucksack or beach bag will know all too well towels are the arch enemy of packing light. For something you only need once or twice a day it takes up way too much space that would be far better used for your travel speakers picnic camera mask & flippers or dare we say it a few chilled bottles of something delicious. Not only does a trad towel hog way too much space when dry but post plunge it gets everything else you’ve so carefully packed wet and somehow weighs as much as a small child. Charming as small children can occasionally be you don’t want to be carrying one around for long. The Pocket Towel is the perfect solution. Not only does it pack up absurdly small taking up less space than a lemon but it dries in nano seconds (figuratively speaking). Made from an ultra-fine woven micro fibre it unfolds to 80 x 40cm and its super-absorbency will soak up three times its weight in water. Better than a traditional towel in every way we can imagine the Pocket Towel is your ultimate travel companion (with perhaps the exception of a porter) whether you’re going to the beach for the day or the Amazon for considerably longer. It’s a backpacker’s dream and a day-tripper’s delight.

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How refreshing to have a piece of practical design that’s so incredibly useful. No more creased scraggy maps where you suddenly find that the vital change between the Central Line and the Victoria line is buried beneath yesterday’s lunch remains. Featuring the classic Henry Beck underground map (Zone 1 and its surroundings) the slick steel Pocket Tube Map is the perfect credit-card sized guide about town. Londoners don’t really like being seen glancing at the massive tube maps around town we like to think we know the place like the back of hands cool urban dwellers that we are – except that of course we don’t know London like the back of our hands considering there are 287 stations on the underground so this cool and discrete little map is the perfect key to the city.

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Price : £ 6.99

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These nifty little notebooks come as a set of four with covers like British American Cuban and Russian passports. Perfect for any international doodler and list maker.

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Price : £ 7.99

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