A Practical Dames Nation Guide To Vacation
Your Best Tips & Tricks Welcome!
Leaping off of a bouncy inflatable donut into not-too-deep crystal clear waters seems like Heaven (and is from a Vogue piece on a Taylor Swift / Calvin Harris vacation some years ago)
Hello, Dames Nation! In anticipation of our own vacations (the newsletter is off next week!) Your Dames are eager to learn about your Best Vacation Practices. We’re interested in your favorite tips and tricks, gadgets and tools, packing methodologies, and unexpectedly handy items for different types of getaways.
Sure, we can (and do! often!) get recommendations from great venues like Wirecutter, The Strategist, and the Gee Thanks, Just Bought It family, but we know that this community is full of casual, idiosyncratic brilliance, and we want to harness it for the good of all.
Live footage of the sugarplums dancing in Dame Sophie’s head
For example, Dame Sophie is already keen on her packing cubes and is wondering if a vacuum-packing setup of some kind would be a good move for her family’s September trip to England to drop their kid off at university there. (Of course, we’d have to travel with the vacuuming contraption in order to get the full benefit of it on the way home, right? Better-traveled Dames, please advise!)
What about laying out your outfits – including accessories – in advance? How far does Dames Nation take this idea? What received travel wisdom have you discarded, or simply made over for your own adventures, large & small?
The comments are open and await your wise suggestions with keenest anticipation!
I like to pack a glue stick and kid scissors, and buy a blank book of some sort in the place I'm traveling and then I paste ticket stubs and whatnot into the book with some commentary. Makes for a great set of memories (and also helped me recently confirm that someone I saw playing music here in town was, in fact, someone I had seen in England in 1996!). Also avoids coming home with a mess of brochures and paper.
I’m interested in finding out about noise cancelling headphones for travel.
My vacation trip is to change your sheets & lay out the clothes you’ll wear the day after you return home. It’s nice to get back from vacation to clean sheets and not thinking about what to wear.