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Money & Valuables

Take as few valuables with you as you can. If your watch was an expensive birthday present from Aunty Mabel, nip down the market and buy a cheap £5 one for your trip, and invest in a money belt to carry your valuables / passport etc. around in.

Try to plan your expenses carefully. Check whether you are better to take your travellers cheques in sterling or dollars, and find out where you’ll be able to change them into local currency (N.B. Some countries will not let their currency out of the country, so you have to find a bank pretty quickly to change your cheques). For instance, is there a bank where you’ll be staying or are you staying somewhere remote and off the beaten track? Remember too that you’ll need to budget for meals, travel, accommodation and sight seeing.

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