Travellers gift.

[gtidriver]

A friend of mine is off on a world wide adventure early next year and i want to buy him something to take with that would be useful, i thought of the new maglite xl100 led torch or maybe a nice swiss army knife. Any ideas please.
Thanks.

[The Riddler]

Bumper pack of condoms.

[Nolar Dog]

Lucky heather or ironing board cover?
Sorry, couldn't resist.

[Densai tikiwa]

one of them plug adaptor thingummy's

[gtidriver]

ha ha funny, really what use is an ironing board cover to a backpacker. Next itll be a washing machine.

[ymwoods]

Densai tikiwa said:

one of them plug adaptor thingummy's

Yep, you can get ones now that pretty much include every type of plug adapter you will ever need. They are a bit like the Apple plugs where you take off one plug, replace it with another one etc.

[mybrainhurts]

Arm belt...

[ShadownINja]

A watch with world time and compass?

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2...

Or a Cessna. Well, you never specified a budget.

Nolar Dog said:

Lucky heather or ironing board cover?

A two feet long porcelain daschund statue?

Edited by ShadownINja on Sunday 30th May 11:49

[Mojocvh]

Decent pair of merrills, turbo lighter, one of those "proper" survival courses not those paintball ones.......

[Bill]

The Riddler said:

Bumper pack of condoms.

Or at least wrap your present in the box, particularly if you're going to give it to him at his leaving party in front of his mum

[sneijder]

Some small padlocks
A few different sized bath / sink plugs
Set of decent headphones
Small LED torch to fit on a keyring
A disposable underwater camera
Some rehydration powder for when he gets the squits after eating rats balls or whatever,

That's 50 quid(ish) on the fleabay and looks like you've done loads of thinking.

Don't forget a travel toothbrush :



..because normal toothbrushes are just far too big.

This book too :

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Are-You-Experienced-Willia...

There's a chance he's read it though.

[LuS1fer]

Not too sure airlines like weapons. What about a small MP3 player like a Cowon which he can put music and photos on?

[sussexjob]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/NEW-UTILI-KEY-SWISS-TECH-6-1...

or more for lone women travellers

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/HOWSAR-TRAVEL-TEMPORARY-PORT...

Edited by sussexjob on Tuesday 1st June 20:04

[Pothole]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/SAS-Survival-Handbook-Surv...

or offer to tarmac his drive while he's away?

[skyline501]

A travel journal to keep a record of his trip?

[5harp3y]

skyline501 said:

A travel journal to keep a record of his trip?

depends on how long they are going for, i filled up three in 9months travelling and they became a PITA to carry around.

head torch would be good, really handy, and come in useful for reading in hostels etc when everyone else is sleeping.

[sussexjob]

A moneybelt

[Arese]

A bumbag.