One must love them. But there’s a bad part to them as well. The one when you have to get ready.

I decided to write a list of the things that I had to do today, as I’ll be flying to Brussels tomorrow, in a business trip.

I filled 4 post-it notes with the things I had to do, so for my future reference (and yours), here you have them:

1. Find out what currency they use, and if you credit card works there.
2. Find out what power outlets they use.
3. What language do they speak?
4. Double check to see if you have money on your card, and take some with you, just in case.
5. Papers – do you have your passport or ID card with you? Where are your airplane tickets? What about the train tickets, if you need to reach there by train?
6. Make sure you know exactly how to reach to the airport, and what time you must be there.
7. Business trip? Purchase a gift for your new business partners. They would do the same if they would visit you.
8. Do you know your own phone number? Not the mobile phone number. :-) Write it down somewhere, as I did. :-)
9. Long trip? Put some music on your iPhone/iPod, and some movies on the laptop. Get a book as well.
10. Do you know how you’ll travel inside the country you’re visiting? Which train will take you where?
11. Find out about places to visit – Trip Advisor is a good place to start.
12. You’ve got a lot of devices with you, make sure you get the chargers as well.
13. The camcorder needs a cassette? Purchase it.
14. Get some sleep. (so you don’t lose the train/flight)

Hope this helps. I definitely needed to have these written down.