Expert Camping Gear Reviews & Advice
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in when you’re three miles from the nearest tap, staring at a stream that looks clean but definitely isn’t guaranteed to be, and your only options are chemical tablets that make everything taste like a swimming pool or a filter that clogs the moment you actually need … Read more
Here’s a fact that tends to ruin a good holiday mood: the thing most likely to derail your trip abroad isn’t a missed flight or a lost passport. It’s a glass of tap water you didn’t think twice about. A UV purifier for international travel exists precisely for that unglamorous, unavoidable moment — the hotel … Read more
Here’s a scene most of us know too well: you’re three days into a trip, the tap water looks suspect, the hotel’s “filtered” jug tastes like a swimming pool, and the nearest shop only sells warm, overpriced bottled water in plastic you’ll feel guilty about for the rest of the holiday. This is exactly the … Read more
Somewhere between a Scottish burn that looks impossibly clean and a hostel tap in a country where the water infrastructure has seen better decades, most of us have had the same nagging thought: is this actually safe to drink? Chlorine dioxide water tablets are the answer a huge number of hikers, backpackers and prepared travellers … Read more
Somewhere between “I’ll just drink the tap water, it’ll be fine” and a three-day bout of the kind of stomach trouble that turns a beach holiday into a bathroom residency, there’s a small, unglamorous hero: the humble purification tablet. Water purification tablets for travel are compact chemical treatments — usually chlorine dioxide or NaDCC-based — … Read more
There’s a particular flavour of dread that comes with turning on a tap and getting nothing, or worse, a text from your water company telling you to boil everything before you drink it. It happened to roughly 16,000 households in Brixham in 2024, and it will happen again somewhere in Britain before this year is … Read more
Somewhere between the airport departures board and the first dodgy-looking tap in a hostel bathroom, most travellers have the same thought: is this water actually safe to drink? A decent filter water bottle for international travel answers that question before you’ve even asked it, turning questionable taps, hotel sinks and village pumps into a non-issue. … Read more
Somewhere around hour six of a soggy day on the Pennine Way, you stop caring about scenery and start caring about one thing only: whether the beck you’re crouched next to is going to make you ill. A filter bottle for backpacking solves that particular anxiety in seconds rather than minutes, turning brown, peaty upland … Read more
Somewhere between “I really should drink more water” and “I really should stop buying plastic bottles from the corner shop” sits a small, unglamorous object that solves both problems at once: the filter water bottle under £30. It’s not flashy. It won’t change your life the way a new phone or a decent mattress might. … Read more
Somewhere around your third trip pumping water by hand for six thirsty people, you start fantasising about a system that just… does it for you. That’s the entire pitch behind a high-capacity gravity water filter: fill a dirty bag, hang it from a branch or a roof rack, and let physics do the boring bit … Read more