{"id":1459,"date":"2016-08-24T11:26:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T11:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.noplacetobe.com\/featured\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2016-08-24T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T11:32:57","slug":"sending-the-memories-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.noplacetobe.com\/featured\/sending-the-memories-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending The Memories Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So much time and effort goes into packing your bag before setting off on a trip that the idea of adding anything else to it along the way is frankly terrifying. It&#8217;s probably taken you weeks to find a way to squeeze your favourite, oversized type of shampoo into the Tetris puzzle that is now your bag.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The truth is though, that we all find things along the way that we&#8217;d love to have for ourselves. After all, you&#8217;re probably visiting somewhere far far away and they have all sorts of shiny exciting things you&#8217;ve never seen before. I know when we were travelling we were particularly hard on ourselves, looking back there are a number of things I wish we&#8217;d picked up along the way from all sorts of weird and wonderful places.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were so concerned with the weight of our bags that we didn&#8217;t even entertain the idea of buying something new. However, your bag doesn&#8217;t even have to come into it, with worldwide shipping companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/direct.tnt.co.uk\/services\/parcel-delivery-to-germany\" target=\"_blank\">TNT Direct<\/a> it&#8217;s easy to collect the things you want without putting any extra strain on your shoulders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Am I saying you should go on a wild spending spree? No, just don&#8217;t pass up the opportunity to keep hold of or collect the things that mean something to you.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #7ad39d;\"><strong>What can you send home?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #7ad39d;\"><strong>The Little Bits<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Postcards, hostel business cards, train tickets, posters and the entrance tickets to all those magical national parks you&#8217;ve visited. Everyone likes to hold onto these little bits but usually before long they disappear and are lost forever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It probably goes without saying that they&#8217;ll get thrown out at some point in the future but, when your back at home suffering from the travel blues they&#8217;ll give you something to look through and make a great collage piece of your adventure if that&#8217;s your thing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/5621962834_651ebcfb16_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1460\" src=\"http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/5621962834_651ebcfb16_z.jpg\" alt=\"Creative Commons Flickr Credit: Gavin Firkser\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/5621962834_651ebcfb16_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/5621962834_651ebcfb16_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Creative Commons Flickr Credit: Gavin Firkser<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #7ad39d;\"><strong>Event Tickets<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And in my case, that means tickets to football matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I like to try and go to games in as many different places as possible and while collecting the scarf of every team I see appeals to me, it doesn&#8217;t appeal to my wallet. By attending the games I already have the tickets and they make a great souvenir that I&#8217;m always paranoid about losing, plus I can use them to impress my friends with worldwide football knowledge.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #7ad39d;\"><strong>Gifts<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We seem to live in a culture where it&#8217;s expected that you&#8217;ll return from a holiday with gifts for other people. I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve worked in an office at some point where you&#8217;ve forgotten that gift and grabbed some sweets from the airport last minute, we&#8217;ve all been there.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thankfully on a long term backpacking trip you only really need to consider those really close to you. Once again, visiting all of these new places it&#8217;s only a matter of time before you come across something perfect for your mum. What better way to surprise her when she&#8217;s missing you than with an unexpected delivery from the other side of the world?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/152920537_b0746bed9c_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1461\" src=\"http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/152920537_b0746bed9c_z.jpg\" alt=\"Creative Commons Flickr Credit: kris kr\u00fcg\" width=\"640\" height=\"537\" srcset=\"http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/152920537_b0746bed9c_z.jpg 640w, http:\/\/noplacetobe.com\/featured\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/152920537_b0746bed9c_z-300x251.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">Creative Commons Flickr Credit: kris kr\u00fcg<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #7ad39d;\"><strong>Your Jeans<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Well, maybe not literally your jeans.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is probably the must useful thing about worldwide shipping for backpackers. For first timers, it&#8217;s pretty much inevitable that you&#8217;ll over pack and somewhere between day two and seven you&#8217;ll be ready to throw half of your belongings out the window. Avoid the spontaneous impulse to do so and instead head to the nearest post office and send it all home.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #d1a46d;\">What&#8217;s the strangest thing you&#8217;ve sent home while backpacking? Or maybe there is something you wish you&#8217;d have sent?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So much time and effort goes into packing your bag before setting off on a trip that the idea of adding anything else to it along the way is frankly terrifying. 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