Top 10 tips

This post is an antidote to Lonely Planet, where I take out my frustrations:

Every country cannot be "slightly more expensive than its immediate neighbours". This is impossible.

Wear only cotton, leather, denim, goretex and wool at the same time. Anything else will make you wet/silly/spaceman/smelly.

The only sleeping bags that are warm when wet are hollow point, and even then, not that warm, and very heavy and expensive. Get a down-filled bag if you can afford it, or lug a huge polyester bag around.

Lillywhites are doing a 70% off sale, or at least they were.

Don`t lose your tent.

Don`t forget your towel.

Get extra leg room seats on plane, or seats as far away from screaming babies/parents in extra leg room seats.

Woolen socks. Don`t laugh, they work.

accuweather has actually heard of these remote places

DONT PANIC