Since one of the main goals of our travels here at Sliva is doing action outdoor sports, with the time, a collection of apps popped up on my smartphone – and those apps have proven useful in many scenarios. Essential apps for hiking, skiing, surfing […]

Would like to do minimalist camping with a minimum amount of equipment and don’t know where to start? You’re on the right place 🙂 I have put together some minimalist camping tips you can use, as well as a packing list for every minimalist camper. […]

Being high on the idea of light travel from the hostel hopping times, both of us (Urska and Matic), and each of us on our own, developed a habit of traveling with hand luggage only. Not carrying a lot of luggage made travel so much […]

If you are hiking with the tent, where the tent provides you with the shelter, you may want to be a bit more picky with your equipment. Here go some experience-based observations and suggestions about the 3 essential pieces of equipment for multiday trekking-camping trip: […]

Some hints for a light camper in Western Australia As described in our 10 days itinerary on the south of Western Australia, we did a bit of camping in Western Australia. By trying to follow our minimalist approach, we packed the really basic stuff while […]

Maybe you haven’t even heard of that thing – but I claim lavender hydrolate is something that should be with you on your trips, always and ever. Why, you ask? It is super-helpful with literally all of the skin trouble – no matter whether your […]

You are or aspire to be a mountain-biker, right? It is quite simple to decide about which type of pedals you want to buy: If you tend to do a lot of uphills, use your mountain bike mainly to maintain fitness and go downhill on […]

e-reader or tablet? A girlfriend of mine recently thought about purchasing something, either a tablet or an e-reader. So we did a bit of a research. For now, she has a laptop and a smartphone. I used to be the same, but since a few […]

By now you probably know that I travel a lot and because of the nature of my work I have to “open up” my laptop even when I am on holidays. So, over the years I learned few things what a laptop for travel needs to […]

Here are some essential tools and apps that I use on my phone when travelling: an app for making notes on the smartphone for any travel-related notes, such as to note down places where to go, or any other little pieces of information. There is […]