International Trade

The Tricks Of Travelling

Joseph Baron, International Trade Today

What can you do to look and feel your best when on that important trip abroad? We’ve all heard the usual stuff: drink lots of water, moisturising on the plane, avoiding certain foods etc… but there are other tricks, and, you never know, you might not have heard of these.

Here are four suggestions to help you before you go, during the flight, and after your arrival.

How To Pack Properly

Opening up the suitcase in the hotel after a 12-hour-long trip is for most an exercise in damage limitation. How wrinkled are the clothes? What can I get away with not re-ironing? Will the hang-the-clothes-in-thebathroom-during-hot-shower-trick finally work for me? (Ha, unlikely…)

The secret to successful ‘damage-limitation’ is, it turns out after exhaustive research, preventing the clothes from moving inside the suitcase. One method of packing is called the ‘cotton bale’, so-named after the yesteryear way of storing cotton inside an outer covering. This system is recommended by America’s Cotton Producers and Importers and they should know a thing or two about fabrics.

To best explain, first visualise that you are standing in front of an old-fashioned rectangle suitcase, long side closest to you.

First, lay the suit jacket face up so that the collar is touching the middle of the inside of the furthest long edge. The arms should be extended over the short sides of the suitcase, hanging out at four and eight o’clock (roughly).

A shirt, or blouse, should be next, again face up, but this time the collar to be closest to you in the reverse position to the jacket, and again the arms are over the sides. Repeat with other shirts or blouses, but alternating the position of the collars between 12... continued on page two >

 

 

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