Wine skin – a travel companion for your wines

Here’s another in my Travel gear wishlist.

Wine Skin is basically a bubble wrapper that allows you to transport wine bottles in your check-in luggage without the fear of it breaking and messing up your other stuff. The bag seals up and prevents any breakages.

Great way for your favorite wines from that hard to find wineries and safely transport it anywhere.

Kiddle on my travel gear wishlist

One of my wishlist on Amazon is  Kiddle – ebook reader. Great for travels and I don’t have to carry massive books around in my already heavy backpack.  Kiddle books are cheaper from usd$9.90 , I can download e- magazines, catch up with all my other readings.

What’s bad about it?

Its electronic, and it needs charging, difficult for me if I am going to a place with unstable and intermittent electrical source.

Baraaza : A new travel review community site

There’s a new travel community based site call Baraaza.com, I received an invitation to join them. You are suppose to contribute your travel experiences, reviews and create destination guides for others.

Have yet to do a proper look around, the setup and the look of the website seems pretty useful. Once you have sign up, you are provide with some blog like feature, a place to upload your photos, share your travel ideas and destinations. There’s the community forum which you can post all your travel questions, reviews or any activities.

It looks promising but only if they could attract a large mass who would contribute, at the moment there are only a few contributors, its a little quiet. With so many other travel sites out there such as the popular travelblog to compete with, not sure if it is worth a second visit just yet.

Here is what it says at their website :

baraaza.com is a travel network that connects people who love to travel with inside information about any destination on the globe. Members connect with other travelers and natives from around the world to discover unique, direct-from-the-source information about amazing spots and travel activities. We hope the information exchanged on our site will quickly inform baraaza travelers and enhance their overall travel experience.

Seen : The Great Anti-Social Train Travel

Subtitle : A individual capsule train form design

I like the concept of travelling alone without having to deal with crappy passengers with bad attitude, bad body odours, noise, passengers having no sense of personal space.

Hamit Kanuni Kuralkan, an Australian designer took 5 weeks to come up with this futuristic concept of Personal Rapid Transit -individual train compartments.

Apart from some design flaws, this is a great concept where each passenger would have their own personal space in individual capsules without the hassle of dealing with other passengers and their idiosyncrasies.

Some issues such as toilets, claustrophobia and problems arising from long distance travel need to be worked out.