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Gifts for a World Traveler

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    I want to get a birthday gift for a close friend of mine who, like me, loves to travel. If you know of any lifesaving or beautiful gifts that you'd recommend, please let me know. I just might buy two!

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    An iPhone. Totally brilliant and works everywhere (it's quad-band). You cut your luggage weight by heaps because you no longer need to lug your laptop as the iPhone does the internet so well and e-mail is flawless. And that's before you start playing with the built-in iTunes, YouTube and Google Maps!
    I wrote a bit about it on my blog here
    http://herrylaw.blogspot.com/2007/12/seriously-cool-phone.html

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    Thanks, Herry. Great suggestion. But as luck would have it, she already has one!

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    Ha! That's the problem with good travellers; they've usually been there first! :-)

    My no 2 favourite is a small ship's barometer. I have one by Dalvey (a Scottish firm - http://www.dalvey.com/ - click the link if only for the air which plays on the intro) which sits on my desk, but also goes in my suitcase and helps with weather-forecasting when you get there. I know your friend's a woman and barometers are more a man's thing (you know - the pipe and tweeds, tapping the barometer and staring thoughfully at the lowering sky a la Heathcliff) - but these are small and beautiful and can help her decide what sort of shoes she should wear!

    Thanks from: Tess
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    I've found that wejetset has some really terrific gifts for world travelers. They have a range of products from sleek passport cases to high-end apparel.

    Thanks from: Tess
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    Once I was going skiing for my birthday in the French Alps and my brother gave me a bunch of Euro's. It was great fun not having to deal with the changing money (for a little while anyway as I ran through his gift rather quickly). In that same fashion, I give world travelling friends gift certificates from the Marriott. Even if they don't stay at Marriotts, the gift certificates can be used for dining or other services. My friend ended up having high tea at the Renissance Hotel off the Holburn station in London. And another friend got a beach massage at the Marriott in Phuket, Thailand.

    Thanks from: Tess

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