If you like to ride, love and ride! Instructions for travelers great and not so great

You may already know that we are conducting a social experiment called "Living light" here. Sergey Anashkevich, a blogger popular in wide circles, acts as an experimenter. For two weeks now, he has not been clogging his head with everyday issues, but shifting them onto the shoulders of online services.

To date, Seryozha has managed to clarify two fundamental issues. Firstly, with this lifestyle, you save a whole carload of time that can be spent on more pleasant things. Secondly, paradoxically, it turned out that various services help not to spend too much.

During the project, our hero has accumulated a bag of practical advice. They will be useful for those who are going on a trip or are not going yet, but will soon gather. Seryozha is a travel blogger himself, so he knows what he's talking about.

Artillery preparation

First of all, a few household tips that will be useful for those who are not yet very sophisticated in the science of travel.

1. Fold your suitcase wisely so that you don't have to take a bunch of extra bags. If you take a spare pair of shoes with you, use the space inside, for example, to store socks. Clothes will take up less space and will almost not crumple if you roll them up in rolls. Charge, belts, jewelry shove into the corners and into the space between the other things. Then the probability of failure will be much lower, and the place will be used effectively.

2. Before leaving, order the cleaning of the apartment. It will be very unpleasant to return from paradise to a dirty, dusty living space. Professionals of vacuum cleaners and mops working in the household services service "Home Operator" from MGTS company (yes, it is not only a telecom and Internet operator) will polish your square meters to shine in a matter of hours. The cost depends on the size of the apartment, but the radiance of all surfaces in any case will be at the highest level.

3. Health problems, unfortunately, can overtake at any moment. Including at the most inopportune time, when you just opened a sunscreen and lay down on the beach. Seryozha, as an avid traveler, is always tormented by insomnia. Well, you know: flights, jet lag, ragged sleep, rest, nutrition, and so on.

It is difficult to get qualified help on the spot, the advice of sofa experts from the Internet also does not help much. During a recent voyage to Germany, Seryozha tried to consult through the application. Doc+ is the only one that has the appropriate license. I contacted the doctor in a video chat and received a detailed description of my problem and a list of recommended medications. They did not help immediately, but they helped: I fell asleep like a baby. If necessary, by the way, after an online consultation, you can call a specialist at home.

Literary training

If you have not been on a long trip for a long time and do not feel such a desire, then you do not have enough inspiration. New countries are very cool, you know. One of the most effective ways to awaken inspiration in yourself is to swallow in one gulp some book that contains a colorful representation of countries and cities.

Seryozha recommends the following works:

1. "Shantaram" by Gregory David Roberts. This is a very tragic novel, riddled with a cunning interweaving of destinies and sad circumstances. However, there is a place in it for charming chapters devoted to the description of India. Local slums and luxurious palaces, remote villages and noisy megacities, crowded trains and colorful markets.

2. "Inferno" by Dan Brown. As in all other novels about the adventures of Professor Robert Langdon, Brown pays great attention to the cities where the action takes place. In "Inferno" it is the incomparable Florence and the mysterious Istanbul.

A frame from the Inferno movie

3. "One-Story America" by Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov. A real classic of the genre of travel notes. The creators of Ostap Bender drove a car through the USA and retold everything they saw with their characteristic sparkling humor. Almost 100 years have passed since then, and, you must agree, it would be interesting to compare how the country has changed over the years.

All these works are very voluminous, and it is hardly possible to read them in two or three days. But it is with this tactic that the maximum effect will be achieved. If you want to inflame the desire to pack a suitcase, listen to audio versions of books using the Storytel online service.

50 thousand works in Russian and English, from Homer and Tolstoy to Grunge and Akunin. By subscribing, you get unlimited access to the entire library. You can listen online through the app or download it to your smartphone in advance so as not to depend on the Internet. By the way, there are several very useful functions in the application. For example, fast—forward allows you to listen more and faster, and slow-down allows you to better assimilate complex books in English.

Automotive training

However, what are we all about abroad. We and Russia, to put it mildly, have something to look at. Seryozha, although he moved to Moscow relatively recently, has already managed to try out routes where you can go in your free time. It would be good to choose a suitable car for each type of adventure. Rent it, it's not as expensive as it seems.

1. We are jealous if you haven't taken a ride on the Golden Ring yet. You have so many beauties and architectural wonders ahead of you. You take the whole family in your arms and discover your homeland from a new side in a couple of days. To make everyone comfortable, Seryozha advises renting a minivan through the Rent A Ride service. For example, Citroen Berlingo will cost one and a half thousand rubles per day.

2. There is always an option to arrange a romantic surprise for your loved one. The plan is this: without further ado, you put your soulmate in the car and take him away from Moscow to a chic country hotel. Weekends are spent under the sign of enjoying each other and the surrounding nature. There is, however, one problem. At a distance of a hundred kilometers from the capital, good roads end. So rent a crossover. How do you like the Nissan Juke for 2,200 rubles a day?

3. Well, thrill-seekers do not need to go far. The MKAD is right next to you, and in the Rent A Ride catalog there are sports coupes waiting for you, on which you can revel in speed all night long, paying five thousand rubles. Although you know, it's better not to do that on the MKAD, go to the toll road — there is no traffic at all.

The peculiarity of the service is that you take the car from the owners, not from the office. That's why the prices are so gentle. You can choose not only the car itself, but also the place where it is convenient to pick it up and where to return it. The assortment, as you can see, is the widest.

In short, modern online services offer such a wide range of services that it is very possible to live light. It is only necessary to come to the understanding that it is not necessary to do everything yourself. Why bother with cleaning, buying new cars, going to doctors and bookstores if there are ways to avoid all this?