10 Essential Travel Tips for Every International Trip

Anyway, should we just go through these top ten? Yeah, I think so.

Okay, let's start off with tip one.

And this is a really important one.

This is something that I've really started doing recently, maybe the last 10 years or so, is to research the airport and book a transfer in advance.

Now, I do this without exception.

That's right.

And this is something that I guess I started doing in the last 10 years.

For me, it can be a game changer.

It's the time when you arrive at the airport in a country and you've got to decide about... you know how you're going to get to accommodation

yeah that's true

and now a lot of people i know who probably are more on the side of kind of the budget travel backpacking type thing even or it may not do what i'm about to suggest but this is something i find it calms me down i feel less stressed arriving a destination and that is booking my transfer

yeah that's right it works for you

It does.

Well, we both do it.

We both get the transfer sorted.

Yeah, when I'm on my own, I don't do that so much.

But definitely when we're together, we certainly do.

Well, it's just that I think after a long flight and you arrive in a country that you've not been to before, an airport that you've never been to before, and potentially a language that you don't understand or know about, the last thing I want to start negotiating is how to get into a city.

Now, I know, as I say, a lot of people will say, actually, it's cheaper to go and get a bus or the train into the city.

And certainly, I remember doing that when I went to Bergen, actually, a few years ago to visit

you when you were doing a tour in Norway for a while.

Yeah.

And I got the bus from the airport into the city and then I got a train to visit you.

But I just have found that when I've got luggage, I just want somebody to meet me with my name on a board and take me to the car, put me in the transport and take me to my accommodation.

Yeah.