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Money / Bank cards / Credit cards
- Bank cards
- Credit cards (AmEx, Visa)
- Copies of your bank cards and credit cards, at home as well as in your bagage
- Traveller's cheques
- Dollars
- Euros
- Copies of important documents
- Bank authorizations for your partner and someone you trust at home
- List of AmEx-offices worldwide ("AmEx Traveller's Companion")
- Moneybelt, eg. "ziploc" (waterproof plastic moneybelt)
Car documents
- Driver's license (valid until at least 6 months after the end of your journey!)
- International driver's license
- Green insurance card
- Carnet de passage
- International registration of your car
- Proof of ownership
- Authorization for your partner to drive the car without being the owner
- Detailed list of your belongings (needed for entering most Eastern-European countries)
- Country-sticker (even when you have the European license plates)
- International insurance forms to fill out when you have had an accident
Documents
- Business passport with extra visa-pages (you need to apply in writing, threefold!)
- Second passport (you need to apply in writing, threefold!)
- Travel partner's photo and copy of first page of passport
Other documents
- International Certificates of Vaccination - The Yellow Card
- Insurance policy
- Extra passport photos for e.g. visa, trekking permits etc.
- International student cards (even expired ones, hardly anyone checks!)
- Membership cards of automobile clubs
- List of important addresses and telephone numbers (embassies, insurance companies etc.)
- Customs registrations for anything expensive or foreign-made (camera, computer)
- Frequency tables of your country's world radio services (at least BBC world!)
- "Point-it", a very handy booklet full of pictures of everything you need. You only need to point at it.
Spare parts car: Tyres
- Spare tyres
- Inner tubes and valves
- Reparation kit and rubber solution
- Voltmeter for tyre pressure
- Vulcanizing set for tyres
- Truck tyre levers (3x)
Spare parts car: Motor
- V-belt
- Oil-, diesel- and airfilters
- Brake fluid
- Fuel hoses
- Silicon kit
- Spare brakes front and rear
- Distribution belts
- Sparking plugs
- Spare water pump
- Motoroil
- Shock absorbers
- Lubricating grease
Spare parts car: Electricity
- Spare dynamo
- Dynamo coalset (diode-set)
- Electricity cables (several sizes)
- Capacity meter for battery
- 12 Volt battery loader
- Battery-tester
- Cable plugs
- Insulation tape
Spare parts car: Other
- Windshield wipers
- Spare light bulbs
Tools
- Metal saw or hacksaw with extra blade
- Sandpaper
- Files
- Screw drivers
- Adjustable pipe wrench or joint pliers
- Open-end / fork spanner / wrench
- Ring spanner
- Pincers
- Jack: foot pump with nanometer
- Hydraulic jack
- Hammer
- Assortiment of screws, nuts, rings etc.
- 1 "Cross" for (un)fastening wheel nuts
- Pliers for electricity cable
- Assembly tape
Security measurements
- Fire extinguisher (2)
- Fire blanket
- Locks, bolts etc.
- (Halogene) spotlights
- Alarm
- Safe
- Device to isolate the starter from the electricity supply
- Steering wheel lock
Camper
- Window insulation / Thermofoil
- Spare light bulbs
- Spare water pump (Fiamma)
- Spare dashboardlights
- Extra 20 litre watertank
- Gasmeter
- Contact glue
- Wood glue
- Water hoses
- Hose clamps
- Wire
- Chains
- Spare safety fuses
- Fiamma Caravanstore awning
- Sandplates for driving through sandy roads
- Snow chains
- Solar cells
- Tow-rope
- Second horn for co-driver
- Two spare fuel tanks of 20 litres each
- Aluminium foil
- Canvas cover
- Camping chairs and table
- 12 Volt garage lamp
Medicines
You will find a list of the medicines we took on the page Travel pharmacy.
Clothes
- Bathing shoes for swimming at rocky beaches and shores
- Good quality winter jackets
- Wide and light (cotton or linen) clothes that cover your arms and legs entirely (for malaria and islamic areas)
- Head cover for islamic countries (only the ladies)
- Sunglasses
- Glasses
- Sport shoes
- Formal shoes
- Summer jackets
- Slippers
- Walking shoes
- Underwear
- Trousers (short and long)
- Socks
- T-shirts
- Pullovers
- Shirts / Blouses
- Skirts / Dresses
- Belts
- Rainsuits
- Scarf
- Hats and caps
- Gloves
- Night gowns
- Bathing suits
- Bath towels
Bathroom, Living- and bedroom camper:
- Sheets, pillow covers, etc.
- Sleeping bags
- Alarm clock
- Blankets
- Pillows
- Solar shower
- Towels
- Shampoo and soap
- Toothpaste and toothbrushes, dental floss
- Comb and hairbrush
- Deodorant
- Labello
- Nailset
- Shaving kit
- Q-tips
- Sanitary pads
- Mirror
- Paper handkerchiefs
- Plastic "Sauerkraut-barrel" (fill with water and soap and use as washing machine)
- Washing lines and clothes pegs
- washing liquid in a tube
- Dustpan and brush
- Chemical toilet fluid
- Toilet paper
- Addresses of family, friends, embassies etc.
- Calendar
- Diary
- Writing blocks
- Pens and pencils
- Calculators
- Adhesion tape and glue
- File for bills, receipts etc.
- Manuals for important electrical devices (heater, fridge)
Food
- Legumes
- Dried food
- Milk powder
- Dextrose
- Concentrated soups and boullions
- Canned meat
- Canned fish
- Olive oil
- Vinegar
- Coffee
- Tea
- Rice
- Pasta
- Sugar
- Salt
- Herbs and spices
Kitchen utensils
- Pressure cooker (saves gas!)
- Casserole
- Cooking pan
- Kettle
- Plastic plates
- Cups
- Cutlery
- Kitchen knives
- Table spoons
- Whisk
- Can- and bottle opener
- Bread-, chopping and carving board
- Tea-egg
- Coffee filters
- Thermos flasks for coffee and tea
- Gas lighter
- Matches
- Washing-up liquid, brush and tea-towels
- Hand towels
- Cleaning liquid
- Cleaning towels
- Aluminium foil
- Plastic foil
- Plastic bags
- Wastebags
- Kitchen paper
- Plastic (Tupperware) boxes to store food that may not get moist (salt, sugar etc.)
- Cooking books / Receipes
Camping gear
- Tent
- Impregnation spray
- GPS
- Binoculars
- Combi-camping (spade, axe and saw in one)
- Isomats
- Metal net to put over backpack
- 1 litre thermos flasks (2 stuk)
- oil lamp and lampoil
- Rope
- Tape
- Gas cooker and gas supplies
- Camping knive
- Good compasse
- Torches
- Good quality backpacks
Electronic devices
- Telephones?
- Photocamera
- Objectives
- Spare batteries
- Photo bag
- Films
- Tripod
- UV-filters and cover lenses
- Notebook with power adapter/converters
- World receiver
- Insurance for photocamera, notebook and telephones
- Empty CD's for burning pictures etc.
- CD's containing important software (HomeSite 4.5., Outlook Express etc)
- Headphone
- Casette tapes
- Muzic CD's
- Discman
- Car radio
- Plug-adapters ("Worldwide plugs")
- Extension cords and multiple sockets
Books
- Travel guides
- Maps / Atlasses
- Literature
Other
- Badmintonset
- Frisbee
- Games (Chess, Rummikub, cards etc)
- CD or diskette with email-addressbook
- Printed list with important addresses and emailaddresses
- List with embassy-addresses / links to embassy-sites for visa applications
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