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Post by lagatta on Jul 12, 2009 10:33:19 GMT
Do you have any foodstuffs/supplies you take while travelling? A favourite knife, your trusty corkscrew? A cutting board? A little pan? And how about spices, condiments, or foods you know or fear you can't get where you are going?
Of course the answer may be different depending on the mode of transport, distance, destination, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2009 11:06:45 GMT
I have to think about this for tomorrow -- probably I will just take a knife, fork and spoon since there is an Auchan hypermarket right next to my hotel and I can buy anything that I forget. I just have to make sure the knife is big enough for slicing melons.
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Post by traveler63 on Jul 12, 2009 12:13:45 GMT
We found a micro-roaster for coffee when we were in Seattle, WA. So now we take our own coffee when we travel. We also have a favorite corkscrew and that travels with us too. ;D
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Post by bjd on Jul 12, 2009 12:20:41 GMT
I never take anything like that. My husband sometimes takes an old Swiss army knife in case we picnic. It's more difficult nowadays since you can't put them in carry-on bags.
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Post by lagatta on Jul 12, 2009 12:40:03 GMT
I've never been able to do just carry-on precisely because of sharp things: an Opinel knife or two, a waiter's corkscrew, tiny scissors and other non-food stuff - including a tiny cutter, the very thought of which strikes terror in a post-9/11 world (had to work that cliché in somehow).
Humans have travelled with sharp things ever since there were humans, or perhaps even proto-humans. Lithic digs and all that.
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 12, 2009 14:17:53 GMT
We always carry a metal decanter (actually an old vodka bottle), unbreable. for transporting whatever is the local hooch.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 12, 2009 15:36:21 GMT
I can get my sharp tongue through airport security easily. But my little fake Buck knife, far more useful, won't pass muster.
When traveling around Mexico, I take the Buck knife, an immersion coil, melmac cup and small plate, plus a spoon and fork.
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Post by rikita on Jul 12, 2009 20:23:32 GMT
depends where i go. a knife, maybe. if i go camping then of course lots of stuff... and seems like camping nearby is all the traveling i get this summer...
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 13, 2009 7:43:53 GMT
I have a knife, a spoon and a pair of chopsticks.
Recently I've started taking a mini Maglite but have been told that the little torchlights with diodes are much better and much cheaper.
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Post by gyro on Jul 13, 2009 13:16:42 GMT
Spork.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2009 15:20:28 GMT
Can you get "permanent" sporks? I've only ever seen plastic ones.
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Post by gyro on Jul 13, 2009 17:48:55 GMT
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Post by spindrift on Jul 13, 2009 17:54:33 GMT
I always take a Swiss army knife - I have two of them. One is a mini. I need them if I go skiing - I have had to use the tweezers for removing splinters.
If trekking I take a head torch, a spare pair of boot laces, an emergency silver blanket (in case of getting lost), water bottles, hand sanitizer, loo roll, baby wipes.
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Post by auntieannie on Jul 13, 2009 18:33:34 GMT
I unadvertently got my swiss army knife through security in my handbag and nobody noticed. that was a few weeks ago only! I put it into the suitcase for the return flight.
I always take something like oatcakes and maybe an apple or dried fruit/nuts for the journey.
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Post by gyro on Jul 13, 2009 20:26:01 GMT
When we came back from Rome in 2002, shortly after the rules on knives had changed (without me realising) they discovered my Swiss Army knife in my daysack at the airport. This was after checking in our luggage, and there was no way I was going to leave it in Italy ! Probably because it was early days in the new rules, they sent my knife separately as hold luggage. In it's own little cardboard box, coming round the carousel alongside all the big boys of the suitcase world, my faithful bottle opening, bread cutting, can opening, thumb cutting friend .....
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 13, 2009 21:22:01 GMT
How do you mean, 'permanent' ? The ones we use are made by Light My Fire, and are all plastic. Which is good when you're travelling through security ... url]http://www.light-my-fire.com/230-147-spork.htm [/url][/quote] Oh ~~ those are nice! The only sporks I've ever seen are flimsy plastic disposables.  It seems for what the airlines charge and considering that they are in the business of transportation, that the very least they could do is make sure the dangerous/forbidden items arrived at the same destinations as their owners. I think the big Swiss Army knife now costs something like 60 bucks, not to mention that they're frequently have sentimental value for their owners. I remember the day they inaugurated all the stringent new rules, a woman returning home from France was divested of over a hundred dollars worth of brand-new cosmetics. That's pure theft! |
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Post by rikita on Jul 13, 2009 22:34:13 GMT
i must say, i prefer this over a spork:  it is of course heavier, but i just find it nicer and more practical... you can take it apart too... |
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Post by rikita on Jul 13, 2009 22:35:02 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jul 13, 2009 23:48:44 GMT
I just take some very small cutlery - I have a tiny fork, but with real tines as in your photo - it started life in more gracious times as an airline fork, but I assure you I didn't pilfer it!, a little spoon - the knife is simply my small Opinel.
I returned home with several liquids, from wine to water to skin cream, the day before the stupid liquids law.
Nowadays they make small flexible cutting boards - friends and I cut them in half and put them in the bottom of our luggage. They are very useful cutting up vegetables etc.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2009 3:56:18 GMT
A small plastic Melita coffee dripper and coffee filters and depending on where I'm going my own coffee.
If I check baggage which I rarely do these days I may take a small folding knife or a Swiss Army type knife. I like your little gadget Rikita.
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 14, 2009 6:05:54 GMT
Gyro, were you on your trip to Munich? Haven't seen you posting recently. Did you take the Swiss army knife (thread relevancy!)?
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Post by gyro on Jul 14, 2009 6:35:27 GMT
No, Munich isn't until September, seeing as how it's a boys outing to the Oktoberfest...... We are, however, off to Vienna as a family in 2.5 weeks ! For that, as well as our Sporks, the same company do some nifty lunchboxes combined with chopping boards and storage tubs/drinking containers. Weather permitting, we'll be doing plenty of Austrian picnicing ..
Everytime I travel, I ALWAYS take my swiss army knife. But these days, it's in my hold luggage...
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 14, 2009 7:36:36 GMT
Have I heard correctly that there is class distinction in Swiss army knives? Officers have a corkscrew, other ranks only a bottle cap remover.
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Post by gyro on Jul 14, 2009 8:07:45 GMT
Are they actually standard issue for ACTUAL soldiers then ? I'd always assumed that went out many moons ago, it it ever was so.
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Post by Jazz on Jul 14, 2009 8:22:09 GMT
Journal and pens, (buy more when I need them in the city etc. that I am in ) knife, corkscrew, watercolours and paper rolled up. All other essentials I buy and they become special momentos. In Paris on my last trip...a coffee cup from Provence, 2 wine glasses.
Rikita, I like that gadget!
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 14, 2009 15:30:28 GMT
Are they actually standard issue for ACTUAL soldiers then ? I'd always assumed that went out many moons ago, it it ever was so. Yes! I just looked it up. The German Armed Forces issue the knife as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knifeOne of my favorite cartoons features Bugs Bunny and Yosemite Sam mountain climbing. They are roped together with Bugs in the lead. Yosemite Sam looks around to discover that Bugs has reached the summit, tied the rope to a boulder, and thrown the boulder over the edge. Sam frantically gets out his trusty Swiss Army Knife to cut the rope, only to open in sequence the spoon, the corkscrew, the screwdriver and so on. |
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Post by bazfaz on Jul 14, 2009 16:31:29 GMT
Obviously I'd go for the model that has a fish scaler.
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Post by spindrift on Jul 14, 2009 18:21:45 GMT
If I'm going to stay with friends I invariably pack PG Tips and a large bag of ground coffee. I like my early morning cup of tea and real coffee for breakfast. I would dread being offered instant coffee.  . With my own tea/coffee I feel quite relaxed about making myself cups as the day progresses...no-one can object when I've provided the ingredients. |
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Post by hwinpp on Jul 15, 2009 6:26:46 GMT
Are they actually standard issue for ACTUAL soldiers then ? I'd always assumed that went out many moons ago, it it ever was so. Yes! I just looked it up. The German Armed Forces issue the knife as well. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Army_knife... It wasn't standard issue in the German army, Bix. I had to get my own... I still have it  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 15, 2009 14:35:00 GMT
Gasp! You mean I can't believe everything I read on the internet?!
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. With my own tea/coffee I feel quite relaxed about making myself cups as the day progresses...no-one can object when I've provided the ingredients.