Jack Barker

Apple are great at many things. But their charges are large, heavy, bulky and not even much good. Jack Barker says Anker has a better alternative if you need an USB-C charger for the new generation of mobile devices.

In a world where USB chargers are ever-more important on the road, Jack Barker finds that Anker is the company providing what the traveller needs. Here, their four-port charger with a continental adapter built-in.

There's one scheduled airline that dramatically undercuts the competition on most of the routes it offers. The boutique airline from the tiny, oil-rich Sultanate of Brunei. Jack Barker tests the service on Royal Brunei Airlines.

With it's new application, Pinterest Places, the leading photo-sharing social network provides a valuable resource for travellers. Jack Barker browses a stunning world of photographic inspiration.

Cheap airlines overcharge for checked luggage and rigorously enforce carry-on weight and size limits. But Jack Barker finds a Bagket skips around the regulations and means his gear flies free.

To travel light you need to be able to quickly wash clothes on the move. Jack Barker finds the newly-invented Scrubba™wash bag is a great solution to a daily problem.

The best of summer's travel books for quiet autumn reading: a fine road trip through China and another to Mongolia, and a very modest tramp past the world's Seven Wonders.

The cost of repatriating travellers taken ill abroad has reached an all-time high - and if you're not properly covered it could cost mortgage money to fly home. Holidaymakers face being stranded overseas for not reading the small print according to specialist travel insurers AllClear.

Leading Majorcan hotelier George Scott is raffling the ten apartments and villas that make up one of this two luxury hotels, with tickets that can be redeemed – at full face value – by guests at his two properties. The odds aren’t at all bad either: read on.

Travelmag editor Jack Barker has a love-hate relationship with laptops. Heavy, fragile, valuable and temperamental, they might be essential sometimes but are a hassle always. But there's a new alternative: the Alphasmart Neo.

Well, millions of Kwacha perhaps. But this new marketing idea from Octopustravel.com brings pyramid commissions to cut-price internet-booked hotel rooms. No investment, free money? Has to be worth a look.

VSO, Voluntary Service Overseas, is giving away an East African holiday for two. To win, you need to be based in the UK, and find four friends... .

Travelmag Editor Jack Barker wrote a thriller some time ago. Now he'd like you to buy it. Find out more.

Forget expensive Malarone. The Pyramid Pop-Up Mosquito Net is the latest weapon in the fight against Malaria.