Before leaving:

• Passport – Check expiry date
• Children’s documents
• A good guidebook, map
• Visa
• Photocopies of important documents
• Buy Travellers’ cheques, foreign currency
• Vaccinations required
• Table of Exchange rates
• First Aid kit
• Travel insurance
• Health documents
• International driving licence
• Luggage labels filled in with name and address
• Mobile Phone/charger

Home:

 

• Provide friends and relatives with keys and emergency phone numbers
• Turn off the oven
• Organize collection of Mail
• Turn off the mains switch
• Deposit money and jewellery in a safe place
• Turn off the heating
• Empty the fridge
• Throw the garbage away
• Ask someone to water plants and feed animals
• Turn off water at mains switch (washing machine/dishwasher)
• Close windows
• Unplug TV and radio

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