• I have learned over time that anything I put in the bottom of that plane can be destroyed, it can be lost, and it can absolutely be gone.
• To be honest with you, every time I’ve spoken to people on this subject, I’m literally getting a 50/50 on whether or not it works.
• One of the things I can tell you is that if you put the big fragile stickers on your bag then people really tend to be really careful about not shoving your bags or really doing some damage to your fragile items.

Hey everyone, it’s Shauna, correspondent from Without Bags. Today, we are here to talk about marking your bags as fragile. Does that work? Does it even apply? This is one of the reasons why we are Without Bags, because I have learned over time that anything I put in the bottom of that plane can be destroyed, it can be lost, it can absolutely be gone. The unfortunate bit is I would love to tell you that marking your bags with fragile does anything. Sometimes, it does. Sometimes, it doesn’t. To be honest with you, every time I’ve spoken to people on this subject, I’m literally getting a 50/50 on whether or not it works.

One of the things I can tell you is that if you carry on your bags and you put the big fragile stickers, that kind of thing, at least the other passengers tend to be really good about not shoving your bags on your bags or really doing some damage to your fragile items. Definitely, try it. It couldn’t do any harm. Mark your bags fragile. Would love to get your guys’ feedback. Have you guys had luck marking your bags fragile? Did it work? Did it not work? Love to get some feedback. Reach out to us on Facebook, Twitter, our blog, WithoutBags.com. Love to hear from you guys. Hope you guys are having a great day and hopefully many, many adventures in your soon future. All right. Thanks. Bye.

• A brand new sweater will cost you starting from $150 –$600 for a single sweater. My travel buddy and I were roaming around and we came across a thrift store. We found those expensive Angora wool sweaters at just $65.One of my passions is to hunt a thrift store and find the best deal on something I was looking for.We love thrift stores, especially if you’re looking for something from that particular location. It’s a great way to get some souvenirs for yourself to take home and of course save you a little bit of cash so you can go out and do all the adventure.

Hey everybody; it’s Shauna, a correspondent for Without Bags and today I want to talk to you about one of my favorite things, thrift stores. Very long story short, as you guys know we were just in Ireland and Ireland has these beautiful sweaters, this gorgeous wool coming from these adorable little sheep that are all over the country. Those sweaters, if you get a brand new one of these really, really nice sweaters, these things can range anywhere from $150 to we were seeing sweaters for like $500 and $600 for a single sweater.

Now here in the States, one of my favorite things to do, one of my hobbies on the weekend is to go to thrift stores. If I’m looking for some new glassware, if I’m looking for, actually perfect example, I was looking for a leather ottoman for my house and I actually ended up finding a leather ottoman at a thrift store, brand new condition, gorgeous, shiny, still had the purchase sticker from the store on it, for $11.83. I’m pretty sure it was a good $200 or $300 ottoman. It’s one of my passions is to go thrift store hunting and find the best deal on something I was looking for and needed anyway.

To get back to the story, here we are, we’re in Ireland, it’s cold. For a girl coming from the desert, Ireland was a little bit chilly.  I had packed coats and sweaters and that kind of thing but I was looking at all those beautiful wool, looking at these gorgeous sweaters and it was really just hard to convince myself to spend even $150 on one of these beautiful sweaters, because coming back here to Arizona, it’s warm, it’s really warm and when would I ever wear this sweater besides the dead middle of winter when it gets down to all of, oh my goodness, 45 degrees. Freezing.

Anyway, point being we were roaming around and we came across a thrift store. I said, oh my goodness, how awesome would this be if I could find a lovely sweater, some sweater that somebody had loved and now they no longer need and can we find this lovely sweater. We went into the thrift store, looked around, looked through all the sweaters, whatever, we were finding some of these gorgeous sweaters, angora, wool, I mean gorgeous, gorgeous sweaters. I think the highest price tag sweater we saw was $65, so I could finally convince myself to get a sweater, so got a sweater. Yah, so happy.

Obviously not wearing it right now, it’s summertime here in Arizona but point being, when you’re out traveling remember thrift stores. We love thrift stores, especially if you’re looking for something from that particular location. It’s a great way to get some souvenirs for yourself to take home and of course save you a little bit of cash so you can go out and do all the adventure stuff that at least I love to do. If anybody has any feedback I’d love to hear your stories on thrift stores and absolutely love to hear any stories or see pictures or anything from your most recent trips and adventures.

We love the interaction bit here on Without Bags, so anything you’ve got, anything you want to talk about, we would love to hear it. Hope you guys are having a great day and make sure you’re subscribed to our Facebook channel as well as to our YouTube and our blog, always trying to post helpful articles, useful links, tips, tricks, travel ideas, all this kind of stuff. Hope you’re having a great day and we’ll talk to you later. All right. Signing off for Without Bags. Bye.

Okay so guys we’re actually now on walking tour. I mean you can see some of these carvings are just absolutely amazing. Some of these tombs are you know, a couple hundred years old. I think, what did they say at the cemetery?

1832.

1832 the cemetery was founded. So some of these are old, old. You can kind of see how far the cemetery goes. The area that we’re in right now, this is the posh part of the cemetery. You can see some of the cravings and stuff these were all done by a guy named Farrell. No, not the musician, but a famous, famous carver here. He apparently did 95% of all the statues in the entire in Ireland, not just the graveyard, the entire of Ireland. 95% this guy.

Some of these are just beautiful. I don’t know if you guys can tell as you’re walking by the sculptures are covered in the old moss and there’s plants growing out of them. You can see all the flowers that have been planted down the walkways and such. Absolutely lovely. Some of the Celtic crosses they were pointing out. You know you can see here, you can see the details. These ones are much more pagan in nature. You know, animals and bird this kind of thing verses of course the christian versions of Jesus and Mary of course.

This tower is actually a monument to I think O’Donnell. O’Donnell is a guy who led the revolution. We were hearing the speech about or from earlier, the reenaction from earlier. You can see a lot of the headstones here are more of the flat,  tombstone looking verses on the other side you can see a lot more of the Celtic crosses. You know, a lot more of the older style.

You can see on that need a lot of these beautiful, beautiful Celtic crosses. A lot of detail. There in the background you can see the big building. That’s someone building there’s actually a museum here and you can look up your ancestry. If anybody’s got ancestors buried here in the cemetery in Ireland, this is the place you want to come to do research. You can see some of the crypts are just lovely, full little underground tombs. We were informed that even if your headstone is east-west or north-south, you will always, always be buried with your head to the east.

As that is, I guess this is basically a catholic cemetery. But, they do have all sorts of different religions here we learned. There are four Jewish people buried in this cemetery. But, there are muslim and protestant and catholic and pagan and all sorts of different people buried here religious value groups here.  The entire cemetery was very specifically built, you know these are those rows that I was talking about.

This is probably, well let’s see is we can actually find the marker here in one of the graves. It is on the tomb stones. I’m going to see if we can find the exact marker. It actually tells you, which row we’re in. Some of these older ones, it’s kind of hard to see the marker piece. I’m just trying to find one where we can see it. Absolutely lovely as you can tell. Some of these pieces are just gorgeous. Of course now I can’t seem to find any of the markers, so I will keep looking and see if we can find one of the markers to show you guys how that works.

Also, for example heres a good version of the marker. You can see on the back. So this is row NC3 and a half, which means it’s half of a plot and this large monument here would be NC3. Weathers started to get a little bit cloudy but it’s been absolutely lovely and sun shinny all day here. You know, everybody’s telling us that from Arizona we’ve brought the sunshine with us. Certainly felt like it.

For the past couple of days we’ve had absolutely lovely and beautiful weather. As you can see the storms starting to come in. Kind of blue skies and no longer blue skies. All right guys I am going to let you go. We’re going to go see if we can find some lunch and I’ll keep you guys involved if there’s anything awesome we see after lunch.

Hey guys, I went to the Dublin Bridge and it was lovely out there. You should totally check out all of the awesome lights, across all of the bridges, across the river. Absolutely gorgeous and awesome.

Hey, guys. It’s Shauna, correspondent from Without Bags. I am currently in the lounge for British Airways, in the Heathrow Airport. I have to admit I absolutely love British Air, these guys are fantastic. For traveling so much, they give me an upgrade to business class, which is fabulous so I thought I’d give you guys a tour around the business class lounge.

So, as you can see, I love these little sparkle things, they’re fantastic. They’re right there, very cool but we’ve got water, full bar to help ourselves. Tons of computers and entertainment zones, we’ve got wine. There’s an entire section just of wine and then down there, you can see down the hallway there’s food, an entire food service down that direction so it’s really nice but this being the headquarters for British Airways, of course being in Heathrow, the place is packed.

Normally when I’m traveling in lounges, it’s not all that busy but today it is and I’m very happy to be sitting in the lounge so I have to admit, this trip has been tons and tons of fun but of course, being gone for so long, I’m definitely looking forward to getting home and getting home to Phoenix. Since we’re talking about British Airways today, absolutely love about BA, they were playing classical music before the plane took off and it’s just so calming. It’s so nice to be able to listen to classical instead of all the hustling and bustling of the bags and the people.

I guess I will see you guys when I get home. I have tons more stories, tips and tricks so keep watching the Without Bags channel and if you haven’t subscribed, definitely subscribe to YouTube, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Hope you guys are having a great day. Fly British Air, we love British Air. Thanks, bye.

Hey guys, it’s Shauna, correspondent for Without Bags. I’m finally on dry land. I’m currently in the Hotel Thon in Kirkenes.

It’s crazy to me. I’ve been on the boat, on the postal ship, for about a week, and the earth, now that I’m on dry land, the earth is still kind of moving, just kind of ever so gently swaying. I have never been on a cruise … If you’ve been watching some of our other videos … never, ever been on a boat, and actually like lived on a boat like that before. Certainly an experience. Once I got my sea legs, a couple days in, life was pretty good, but very, very different. I’m very, very happy to be on dry land.

Couple of things here … I’ll give you guys the view outside my window, which is absolutely fantastic … Let’s see if I can get the camera turned around here for you … I mean, this is where I’m at. I’m in a very nice warm room, which I know sounds kind of crazy but the boat was a little cold. Very nice, warm room overlooking the ocean here, the Barents Sea.

Then I’ll give you guys the view of the room. I can’t believe how much space I have. I know this looks like a very simple room, but on the boat, my room was probably like to the edge of this gray thing, that was the width, and maybe back to where I’m standing, so what, maybe eight or nine feet wide by about 10 feet long, something like … I am so happy, I can actually stretch my arms out. Yay, I can stretch my arms out. I can stretch my arms out and not touch anything. This is fantastic.

Anyway, I am going to go do a little bit of exploring in Kirkenes. Apparently the whole city, the whole main part of the city is … There’s about 3,500 people that live right in Kirkenes, and about 10,000 people that live, kind of in this general vicinity. So I’m going to go roam around the city center, which apparently is about 10 buildings wide, and there’s a shopping mall on one end, and then two streets up and that’s it.

I’m going to go do that. It’s currently about 12:30 in the afternoon here. Had a fantastic … If you guys just watched the crab adventure, learned a lot, actually, about the King Crab. They were originally brought here by the Russians, from north of Japan. They grabbed about, I think they said 10 trips of 10,000 crabs each, so 100,000 crabs. Shipped them across Russia and dropped them off here, north of Norway, into the ocean, to the Barents Sea here, and wanted them to reproduce. And that is where all the King Crab generally comes from now.

I have to tell you, King Crab, I have never had … I mean, I’ve had King Crab at home in Arizona, but obviously Arizona is not the best for seafood. This is probably the best crab ever eaten, ever. Probably helps that I was out actually fishing and pulling up nets and stuff earlier. You know, when you’re hungry it always tastes better.

I have to tell you, King Crab, I have never had … I mean, I’ve had King Crab at home in Arizona, but obviously Arizona is not the best for seafood. This is probably the best crab ever eaten, ever. Probably helps that I was out actually fishing and pulling up nets and stuff earlier. You know, when you’re hungry it always tastes better.

Anyway, really, really excited to be here and yeah, so, I guess I’m going to go roam around Kirkenes and if there’s anything interesting and fascinating for you guys to learn about, I will do another live video. I will talk to you guys soon. All right, thanks. Bye.

• It’s very important to consider the type of clothing. If you’re wearing heavy acrylics, it’s not going to dry quickly, especially if you’re in a super humid climate like Thailand.
• It slims down your bag, you have more space for gifts to bring back for everybody.
• You can wear the same clothes the next morning and they are ready to go.

Hey guys. It’s Shauna, correspondent from Without Bags, and I am here today to talk to you about one of my absolute favorite methods for washing clothes. Anytime you travel, you guys know, I travel without a bag. If it doesn’t fit in a carry-on, it doesn’t come with me. Well, laundry detergent, having to do laundry in hotels can be very expensive. You can do them in the sink, the little dry laundry sheets, that’s pretty good, but you always need some place to hang them and then you might have multiple days of clothes you’re hanging. The whole laundry situation just gets a little bit crazy.

One of my favorite ways to deal with it I actually learned from another passenger on a plane. We had both been upgraded to business class, we were both really happy about that, so we were really chatty with each other, and his suggestion … So first things first, the type of clothing is important. If you’re wearing cotton, if you’re wearing heavy acrylics, that kind of thing, it’s not going to dry really quickly, right? Especially if you’re in a super humid climate like Thailand, one of my favorite places, it can be really, really humid. Definitely be looking at the type of material that you’re wearing, but my favorite, the thing that he suggested which I just fell in love with, is basically it’s a little weird, trust me right now, it’s a little bit weird, but my favorite thing is you actually get in the shower with the clothes on that you were wearing that day.

You use, the hotel typically provides a shampoo/soap combination, you lather yourself up, all of your clothes, lather them all up, and then let the water rinse it all off. You hang up that layer. You lather up the next layer of clothes, you hang that up, you let it dry. By the next morning, if you’re wearing some of that quick dry material, that kind of thing, it’s dry, it’s ready to go. In this particular case, now I’m not that hardcore, in this particular case this business traveler was only bringing one set of clothes, one. The only thing he had in his bag were basically his particular toiletries and his shoes and his laptop and that kind of thing.

I was so impressed, but I did try it on one of these past trips and it was kind of weird. It was okay, but certainly taking a shower in your clothes the first time, it feels really, really odd, but I’ll tell you what, if it slims down my bag, more space for gifts to bring back for everybody, it makes me pretty happy. Signing off, Shauna for Without Bags, and let me know if you’ve ever taken a shower in your clothes. Would love to hear the story. All right, I’ll talk to you guys later. Bye.