Equipment
The best iPhone apps for world travelers
Using your iPhone on the road isn’t the same as at home. You certainly want to disable data roaming (for your home SIM card) as it is usually ridiculously expensive – O2 Germany for example charges more than 12 Euro per MB (yes the amount of a few emails, this is not a typo) if you travel outside … Weiterlesen
What’s in the backpacks
It’s not so easy to know what to take with you when you are leaving for more than a year. When people see or lift our backpacks, comments range from ‚This is all you have?‘ to ‚Oh my god, you are carrying all this stuff around the world with you?‘ You could call this list … Weiterlesen
Zelt Nr.3
Ursprünglich sind wir bewusst ohne Zelt im Gepäck aus Deutschland aufgebrochen. Campingausrüstung wiegt zuviel, um sie durch die Gegend zu tragen, wenn man sie nicht täglich verwendet. Inzwischen haben wir aber schon mehrere Zelte besessen. Zelt Nr.1 haben wir uns auf dem „Black Market“ in Ulanbaator, der Hauptstadt der Mongolei gekauft, um für unsere Streifzüge … Weiterlesen
The camera is dead, long live the camera
One day in the Sikkimese mountains, our camera made its last shot. It came as a shock but was on the other hand not completely unexpected: the EOS 1000D that we had bought a few years earlier finally surrendered to the heat and cold, dust and humidity, salt-water spray and other shocks while bumping around … Weiterlesen
Around Annapurna
When we left for our trip around the world, we didn’t have a fixed itinerary, rather a whole bunch of ideas. Going hiking in the Himalayas was one of them. However, it wasn’t until we met Dustin, an American traveller, on a cross-border train from Mongolia into China, that we first heard about the Annapurna … Weiterlesen
Stay warm
Sleeping bags can be incredibly expensive. Getting a branded one with goose down can easily set you back some 400-500€. Thanks to our French friends at Decathlon though I had gotten one for less than 100€ that claims to keep you warm even in temperatures slight below zero. Down is lighter, smaller and warmer than … Weiterlesen
Missing the Leatherman
It was an incredibly useful piece of equipment and most importantly one with emotional significance. The blue Leatherman Juice C2 was a precious present from my colleagues back at MyHeritage. Unfortunately, it’s quality wasn’t what I had expected from this US cult brand. Ironically it happened while traveling through China – where the presumably low-quality … Weiterlesen
Our Trangia cooker
This piece of equipment was a hard choice – should we take it on our trip or not? The uncounted hot cups of coffee in the mornings and the delicious camping dinners have since proven that the cooker earned its space in my backpack. I have an older version of the one pictured on the … Weiterlesen
Steiner binoculars
Not much of the content of our backpacks has been introduced yet (only the netbook), though we already learned a lot on this trip about what is needed and what isn’t. We tried to only pack the most essential things into our backpacks (with the help of the German world travel web site weltreise-info.de). There … Weiterlesen
Electronics from the Golden Computer Arcade
There are a lot of things you can take if you leave for a year, but we left with about 12 to 13 kg in each of our backbacks. We don’t miss much and there are still a few items we would not have needed. I wanted to dedicate a few posts to some of … Weiterlesen
Packed up
The backpacks are closed, but I thought you might be more interested what’s inside ;-) Here you go: We loved the list at weltreise-info.de. Although ours is quite a bit different as you can see. So far we have written more about those pieces of our equipment in more detail: – Steiner binoculars – The … Weiterlesen
