Backpack Geek

Wowzerz!

Three days until we leave! Elee’s packing her bags now, and we made a little, silly, unprepared or rehearsed video. Enjoy!

Wahooo! First blog post for me!!! We have put some pics up of Rob’s backpack and our little computer we are taking with us, she’s called Eee! No not named after me It’s definitely a girl as it’s cute and small so if Rob ever says otherwise he is wrong. Aaaanyway back to things you may be interested in. So you can see Rob’s backpack which is cool, but not as cool as mine which is a lovely shade of ‘duck-egg blue’!

We will have a picture up soon of mine but Rob’s will have to suffice for the moment! We’re both very excited about setting off next week on Sunday and have just done a practice bag pack!! Relatively successful I must say, but his is the larger of the two, and well, I’m a girl so he will just have to carry some things of mine! So here’s to my first blog, our first bag pack and our first set of pictures!!! Enjoy what’s to come!!!

15 days until we depart and things are looking, well, OK!

We’re insured now (at last!), we’ve got our backpacks, all our medical stuff, vaccinations, hostels booked, flights, tranportation, some trips, monies..wow!

First things learnt is to understand that there’s a significant expense outside of spending money, flights and accommodation. Sun cream is around about £10 a bottle, a mosquito net is £25, your backpacks and boots are at least £50 each, anywhere up to £300. Malaria tablets can run at £3 a pop (for the decent ones), yellow fever is £50 and your insurance can be about £50 a month. For those of us outside London there’s also the train/plane down there (£10-40) and maybe a nights stay (£40+) if you leave from Heathrow.

None of these is particularly expensive on it’s own but add them together and you can be approaching £500-600+ extra cash which all has to be spent before you even leave. We were quite glad to have paid for so much of our trip up front so all these “hidden expenses” haven’t been too troublesome.

Pictures of gear, garb and gadgets coming soon!

Ciao for now,

Rob