Fjallraven Greenland Top Backpack Review

It’s a well documented fact on Wild Tide that I’m a huge fan of the brand Fjallraven and in particular their bags; I already own a Re-Kanken, Duffel No. 4 and large Splitpack and use them all regularly. Kanken are a hugely popular and excellent bag with pretty much a cult following, however, I needed a slightly larger backpack for bigger adventures. It had to have thicker straps, a greater capacity, a laptop pouch and more pockets. I found a…

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Lifesaver Liberty Portable Water Filter and Purifier Review

There are many different water filters on the market, all have different levels of filtration and offer their own pros and cons. Today I’m going to be reviewing the LifeSaver Liberty; a portable water filter and purifier bottle which is the only one on the market which has an inline pump combined. This makes it really useful and means that it can be used in a whole heap of situations which other filtration bottles can’t be. Firstly, in terms of…

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SunGod Sierras Polarised Sunglasses Review

If you’ve been on Wild Tide much in the last year, you’ll know that I’m a huge advocate and fan of SunGod Sunglasses. I’ve already written about how I believe SunGod make the best travel sunglasses. I’ve spent literally weeks and weeks travelling, wearing SunGods and now know how awesome they are. Vicky and I have a little collection of SunGod sunglasses which consist of different colours of Renegades and Classics2, so when I saw the newly designed 2018 SunGod…

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Great Travel Accessories That You Need

I absolutely love travel gadgets of any kind. If there are gizmos out there that can make my travelling life easier, so that I can spend more time enjoying myself or be more relaxed, then I want them! On our recent trip to Vietnam, we took several new purchases with us in the hope that they would make the trip even more enjoyable. Here is a quick run through of some of the things we brought with us and how…

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Helly Hansen Vanir+ 35L Backpack Review

For our trip to Vietnam and in particular our trip to go trekking in the Sapa mountains and valleys, I had got a new mid-size hiking pack the Helly Hansen Vanir+ 35L Backpack. This excellent 35L pack is perfect for weekends or shorter periods on the trail or as carry on luggage for flights. We had taken bigger 60 litre backpacks for our trip to Vietnam, but for our time in Sapa we decided to downsize and both share this…

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