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Home / Tips & ideas / Seasonal / Christmas gifts for travel-loving Mums

Christmas gifts for travel-loving Mums

November 30, 2014 by Gretta Schifano 10 Comments

1 – Best in Travel 2015
2 – GoPro Hero
3 – iPad keyboard

Juice cube charger
5 – Stow bag
6 – Antler suitcase

7 – Samsonite luggage strap
8 – Liz Earle Beauty Essentials
9 – Yummy chocolate

As it’s now December I think that’s it’s OK to start planning for Christmas. Especially if, like me, you have legions of people to find presents for. If you need ideas for presents for Mums or sisters or friends or anyone else who likes travelling (or me) then I think that these things are all splendid. I’d be very happy to unwrap any of these at Christmas.

  1. Lonely Planet’s Best in Travel 2015 because I love reading travel guides and those from Lonely Planet are always great. This one is all about the most exciting places to go at the moment and I know that it would inspire me. £9.99, Lonely Planet.
  2. A GoPro camera for filming my travels. GoPros are sturdy action cameras which you can wear on your body to film what you’re doing. They’re really fun, are great for bloggers and I’d love one. From £99.99, GoPro.
  3. An iPad keyboard so that I can use my iPad more effectively. When I travel I take my iPad for writing and working. I’d love a keyboard to attach to it to make typing easier and quicker. I like the look of this one from Logitech. It’s made of aluminium so it’s very light and it’s rated by Which? as a Best Buy. £52.95, Amazon.
  4. Another Juice Cube charger. This is a very useful device for charging up your mobile phone when you’re on the move. We bought one of these last year and have used it a lot. You plug it in to an electric socket to charge it up and then connect it to your phone when you need it.  It comes with a range of phone connectors but I’ve changed my phone and now need one with an iPhone 5 connector. £24.95, Amazon.
  5. Luxury leather cross-body bag. I have a version of this bag which I bought at a market in Venice and which my teenage daughter finds repellent. I need a bag like this though for travelling, one which I can wear across my body and which can hold our passports, travel documents and my phone and purse. I figure that if I have a posh bag for this then my daughter will be able to sit next to me once more. £150, Stow.
  6. A decent, hard-wearing suitcase with four wheels. The new Aire range from Antler is apparently the lightest suitcase range which the brand has ever produced. The Medium Antler Aire suitcase in aubergine looks pretty good to me. £136, John Lewis.
  7. A bunch of Samsonite luggage straps in bright colours. When we went to Austria in the summer my son stopped a woman from walking out of the airport with my purple suitcase. It was identical to hers. I’d like some noticeable luggage straps to make sure that my suitcase looks different to anyone else’s. £13.46, Amazon.
  8. The Liz Earle Essentials Try-Me Kit. My marvellous Mum introduced me to the Liz Earle beauty range this summer. I’d been using the same luxury brand of moisturiser for years and my skin was dry and awful, the worst it’s ever been. I now use the Liz Earle hot cloth cleanser, tonic and moisturiser twice a day and my skin is back to normal, hurrah! This kit contains mini sizes of the products which I use and so is perfect for travelling. £23.00, Liz Earle.
  9. Chocolate. Members of the official-sounding Hotel Chocolat Tasting Club receive a selection of chocolate to try every month. This has absolutely nothing to do with travelling but it’s a genius idea. There are gift subscriptions available from £50. Just saying.

Do you have any gift ideas to add to my list?

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Tags: Christmas, Christmas gift guide, gifts for Mums, gifts for travellers

About Gretta Schifano

I'm a freelance journalist and blogger specialising in family travel with teenagers, trips when parents manage to travel without their kids, and 50+ travel. I also write about vegetarian travel, parenting teenagers, adoption, SEN, ADHD and anxiety. My work's been published by the Financial Times, Guardian, Independent, National Geographic Traveller, Lonely Planet and others. I've lived and worked in Italy and Spain and am now based in rural south-east England with my husband, adoptive and birth kids and our dog. I previously worked as a social action radio producer for the BBC.

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  1. Raymond @ Man On The Lam says

    December 9, 2014 at 12:44 pm

    I have a power pack charger (not the Juice Cube one though) and it’s one of the best investments I ever made. 🙂
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    • Gretta Schifano says

      December 9, 2014 at 3:04 pm

      They’re great when you’re travelling- which one do you have?

      Reply
  2. John says

    December 8, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    Re your comment about the juice cube and iphone 5, you can actually use the cube I think even though there is no attachment for the iphone 5. I believe your iphone 5 charger has a USB that fits into the plug of your phone charger. If that’s the case then you can just plug the USB into the juice cube. I’m pretty sure that works. Try it out and let me know.

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    • Gretta Schifano says

      December 8, 2014 at 8:51 pm

      I’ll try that, thank you for the tip!

      Reply
  3. The Diary Of A Jewellery Lover says

    December 3, 2014 at 7:39 am

    My husband has a Go Pro and he uses it to video himself windsurfing. It’s a great piece of kit. I think I may have to put that Lonely Planet book on my Amazon wishlist 🙂
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  4. Tin Box Traveller says

    December 2, 2014 at 8:11 pm

    Ooh, Liz Earle and chocolate – can’t go wrong with those items! I also couldn’t travel without my portable phone charger. Surfing the web on the move really zaps my iPhone 5 battery. Great list – I might have to share this with Mr TB 🙂
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  5. jenny says

    December 1, 2014 at 4:03 pm

    Just wondering what to get you for christmas! do we need to book the approriate gift!

    Tom won a go pro in a raffle in Milan…. complete with every possible accessory .. he was rather ecstatic.

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    • Gretta Schifano says

      December 1, 2014 at 7:33 pm

      Wow, lucky Tom, that’s brilliant!

      Reply
  6. Trish says

    December 1, 2014 at 11:23 am

    I’ve been hearing a lot about GoPro cameras – it seems this is the way to go in travel blogging. Not much action if I attach it to my body while lazing on a beach mind… :-))
    Trish recently posted…Review: Mövenpick Hotel, AmsterdamMy Profile

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    • Gretta Schifano says

      December 1, 2014 at 12:08 pm

      You could film the waves and the clouds and your toes!

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