The last month at Walk and Travel

Life has been pretty hectic over the last month at Walk and Travel . I've got a great new range of products, to include Pacsafe travel security products, Bridgedale Walking Socks, Spenco Blister kits and Foot First Aid and some other little bit and bobs such as Sigg Bottle Cleaners and Sigg Spare Washers for the lids of their water bottles.

When you go through to my site, www.walkandtravel.com you may not find these products straight away as it does take time to load them up! Hopefully over the next two weeks they will all start to appear.

We have also been to the South of England Show, to sell our wares. This was great fun, it is great to be interacting with customers again rather than just selling through the website. What also made it great was the weather, the constant risk of pouring rain and howling winds as we only had a cheap Homebase part marquee, carefully lashed down (we are Scouts after all!), copious amounts of Market Stall clips and a little bit of sellotape to give it that sort of broken glasses look! In the future we will look out for another better quality type tent that means you can sleep at night and not worry about the stock getting wet or blown away!

We did the South of England Show with our friends at www.girlstravelclub.com, so if you want some good girly travel products and advice, then check them out.

The plans for the Poland expedition are coming along well, though slightly changed from not being able to stay at the mountain hut at Morskie Oko, we are now staying at Schronisko Roztoka, about another hour and a half down the valley, this will make our summit bid on Mount Rysy a massively long day. The preparation will need to be stepped up a bit to ensure that we have the stamina for this. The climb alone is likely to be around 1000m. However, we are all sorted and I can't wait to go trekking in the Polish Tatra Mountains. I'm even trying to learn some Polish - not the easiest language to get your tongue around I can assure you. But as I say in the Travel Tips section of www.walkandtravel.com, it is always good to learn some of the niceties of the local language as it goes a long way.

So what has been selling well on Walk and Travel? Currently our best sellers are the Nomad Sahara Raider Bag, the Nomad Sahara Travel Bag, at a bargain 20% discount, Snugpak Sleeping Bags are selling well into the camping season and as ever DEET insect repellent is the must have insect repellent for going abroad. It DEET insect repellent has been proven time and time again to be the most effective insect repellent again biting insects that can spread disease.

Well, that's it from me for now. Happy Walking and Travelling.

Gareth