The Best Binoculars for Safari in 2026: What We Actually Use and Recommend I grew up on a small island in the Seychelles called Bird Island, which was home to a handful of people and several million nesting seabirds. Just about every adult I knew had a pair of binoculars within reach, and a decent […]

The Best Packing Cubes for Travel: Our 2026 Picks and Buying Guide We’ve been travelling and writing about it full time since 2010, and for the past four years most of our clothes have crossed borders inside a set of cheap Amazon packing cubes we bought when we were living in the UK. Jess, meanwhile, […]

The Best Travel Power Banks for 2026 (and Which Ones Are Actually Airline-Legal) I’ve been buying, and wearing out, travel power banks since 2016. These days the one that lives in my camera bag is an INIU P63, a 25,000mAh brick I chose partly because it sits right around the airline carry-on limit, so I […]

Best Travel eSIM 2026: Which One to Actually Buy (We Paid For Five) We’ve paid full price for five of the big travel eSIMs and used them on real trips: Airalo, Holafly, Saily, Nomad and aloSIM. Those trips have run from East Africa to the Caribbean to mainland Europe and the US, and our full […]

Best Luggage Trackers for Travel: Our 2026 Picks Travel can have many unknowns, which is a part of the thrill and excitement. Will you like the food? Will the people be nice? How will you fit all your souvenirs in your luggage to get them back home? However, some unknowns veer away from exciting and […]