[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] There is no excuse nowadays for buying endless bottles of purified water when you’re travelling. If you’re still doing it – Stop! This madness has to end. Get yourself a SteriPen and a decent water bottle and cease contributing to the Pacific Ocean plastic vortex. The SteriPen I reviewed ages ago but I’ve yet to recommend a companion water bottle. To be honest I usually use a 1 litre wide mouth Nalgene but this seems like a good excuse to extol the virtues of Camelbak’s Podium bottle. I nearly hit a cow once, in Zululand. At 750ml the Podium is a little on the small side for regular travelling but it does fit perfectly into a bike’s bottle cage.
[Short of time? Read the Haiku review instead] I’m no luddite. I know I’ve gone on in the past about carrying too much unnecessary technology on the road but if I could I’d take a washing machine with me everywhere I went. Alas, one of the chores of travelling is washing your undies in a bucket, probably with a scrap of soap you found in the shower or one of those impenetrable green cubes from the local market in Aleppo that looks like it was made of sperm whale blubber in the 1820s. Of course, there are other options, namely the laundry woman. Sometimes she’s cheap enough to use, and sometimes not. It really depends on what you’ve got on for the day and how smelly your clothes are. And whet
