Felicity Hutchison--Travel Guru

After several re scheduling events we were delighted to hear from Felicty Hutchison –the Travel Guru.

She was introduced by Chairman Ian Pohl.

An ex teacher who ventured into her own business Felicity was a highly experienced international traveller who described how answering a few travel questions progressed into a travel advisory service.

Extracting from her deep knowledge Felicty chose to focus on, in her address to us, that one aspect of “how to deal with technology”.

What followed in the next 20 minutes was a wonderful demonstration and set of hints of the diverse range of packing systems available for the airline traveller.

Amazingly restricting herself to the potential of one carry on bag, characteristics 2.3kg, with capacity of 44 litres and all within the legal limiting dimension of 55cm,  she showed how appropriately chosen self contained “baglets”are used to pack specific sets of goods within that one bag.  This included for example dirty laundry containered in a light air tight bag with one-way air valves, credit card (always carry several and in different locations) pouches with impermeable (to electromagnetic skimming devices) covers, laundry sets, luggage scales and elements with straps reinforced with cable to thwart cutting by thieves.

While demonstrating how the use of these aids leads to a very efficient and secure arrangement, many of the travellers in the audience would have felt that by embracing some of these aids there was a chance to outdo NASA.

Thank you Felicity , it was a wonderful eye-opener on how to travel better prepared and a timely reinforcement of the need to secure one’s valuables when in transit and how to do that.  Stories of the long range skimming capacity of modern devices to extract credit card information was sobering.