French Alps Travel Guide
Yoalin traveller and ambassador Èlise Bouhelier wrote an amazing and helpful guide for travellers who want to visit the French Alps. Take a look at it online or download the PDF!
Carabiners as carrying aids
Carry one or multiple carabiners with you. You might not have space in your backpack or suitcase anymore during your travels, so just fix things like a bottle, shoes or bags with other stuff onto your luggage!
The Alps for Beginners
Mikołaj Buczak, one of the Yoalin-travellers from 2018, wrote a helpful and inspiring guide for future travellers who go to the Alps for the first time – just like he did in this summer 2018.
Pack shoes cleanly
If you want to pack shoes, the question often arises how to keep the dirty sole away from clean clothing. Dog owners can practically use walking bags here, others take plastic bags from the supermarket: sneakers and shoes fit in perfectly here.
Keep a string or duct tape handy
A string is always practical, as is a piece of adhesive tape: to patch something up, to fasten it, to close it or even as a blister plaster. Space-saving a piece of it wrapped around your water bottle or lighter – there’s no excuse not to take it with you!
DIY lamp
You are in the tent or outside and want to play some cards or plan the next day. Unfortunately, your flashlight only gives a narrow cone of light. Take a full bottle of water and fix your lamp so that it shines from the outside into the bottle and you have the most comfortable living […]
Daylight under control
You’re hiking, but soon you’ll run out of daylight? To know how much time you have left before the sun goes down, stretch out your arm and count the number of fingers that fit between the horizon and the sun. Each finger means 15 minutes of daylight in our latitudes!
Mint or lavender against spiders
If you have a spider phobia, always bring lavender or mint with you. Spiders don’t like both at all.
Fresh smell for dirty laundry
There is still fresh laundry in the suitcase, but the only thing you can smell is the dirty laundry bag? This lifehack is a remedy: Used clothes don’t smell like a mop if you put a piece of hotel soap in the laundry bag.
PackHack: Roll up your clothes
The rolling of clothing has long since proved to be one of the most space-saving packing methods among travellers. In order to get some extra volume, it is also worth filling the cavity in shoes, e.g. with socks. Another space-saving packing method is the proven Ziploc freezer bag packing method: Press all the air out […]
