Atlantica - 01.12.2006, Qupperneq 30

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SHE’S GOTTA HAVE IT
Got a girl in your life who’s always on the go? This holiday season, embrace her
inner traveler with these eight tokens of affection, big and small.
JOGGING TO GO
If your girl is a runner, you can’t go wrong with
Puma’s new Train Away running gear kit. The kit
includes a top, pair of shorts, lightweight jacket and
running shoes that all pack into a single bundle
that can be thrown into a suitcase without a second
thought. For anyone who has planned to go running
while on business or vacation and forgotten a crucial
item, Train Away is the answer. They’ve thought of
everything on this one: the tank top comes with a
built-in sports bra and the running shoes come with
a collapsible heel for easy packing and a slot for her
hotel card key in the shoe’s outer sole.
trainaway.puma.com
PERSONAL SOUNDTRACK
You know that scene in Lost in Translation where
Scarlett Johansson wanders around that Japanese
garden listening to Air? Music and travel are a
powerful pair, and one good song mixed with one
good scene could stick with your pal for life. So it
follows that one really good mix (or playlist) can be
the gift that makes a trip for somebody. Is she going
to Mumbai? Make her the Mumbai-train-riding mix.
Off to Costa Rica? Could be a monkeys-throwing-
things-at-you mix is in order. It’s free, and it’s a labor
of true love.
THE PERFECT CARRY ON
There are two kinds of people on your airplane right
now – those who are conscious of what their luggage
says to the world, and those who don’t give a toss. If
you know a member of the former camp, Samsonite’s
new vintage collection has come out with a gorgeous
retro carry-on called the Beauty Case, which comes
in colors from sedate brown tones to a flashier purple
and red duo that says one thing loud and clear: “She’s
with me.” samsoniteblacklabel.com

CREATURE COMFORTS
Unless work is springing for a room at the W or Four
Seasons, long business trips can be a bummer for
someone who prefers the comforts of home. Good
smells help. Pacifica is an ecologically conscious
candle company from the west coast of the United
States that creates deliciously scented candles that
aren’t too saccharine. Their candles evoke the spices
or fruits of locales from Tuscany to Tahiti to India.
pacificacandles.com
NETWORKING
You know one if you’ve got one. She always talks
to the person next to her on the plane, bus, train,
theater, line for the bathroom, etc. She has friends’
apartments to stay in from Rio to Seoul. Before her
next long trip, why not order her a personal card so
she can give out her vital stats to the people she will
inevitably meet along the way? Small companies
like Paper Monkey Press in Berkeley, California,
make gorgeous personal cards with clever twists
on people’s names, offering something much more
beautiful and intimate to hand out than a standard
business card. papermonkeypress.com
TIME OFF
Time to wean your favorite adrenaline addict off the
juice and enforce a long weekend out of the fray. Even
a well-heeled traveler with every communication
gadget up her sleeve will not be able to resist
the calm vibe at the boutique hotels in Morocco,
Portugal, Spain, and, oddly, Argentina that make up
the Rusticae hotel network. The highly searchable
Rusticae web site offers good contact information,
listings of amenities, and photos of member hotels,
divided into two camps of country hotels and small
hotels in big cities. The brand manages to hone in on
a mellow, elegant aesthetic that does not steamroll
over the cultural mark of the countries where it
operates. Which is something every good traveler
appreciates, especially with spa and fireplace en
suite. Trust us on this one. rusticae.es
FOR THE ORGANIZED PHOTOG
Personally, I have never uploaded a digital image
onto a computer in my life, but if I was one of those
people that came straight from my six-month tour
of central Asia and had an online photo bank up
before the jet lag wore off, I would surely appreciate
Sony’s GPS-CS1 GPS device. This GPS gizmo attaches
to digital Sony cameras and camcorders and tracks
where images were taken. After the device records a
photograph’s global positioning in the digital coding
of the image, software that comes with it displays the
images on an online map. It would take me 500 years
to figure out how this thing works, but if your lady
friend gets it, kudos to her. sonystyle.com
COMPILED BY
KRISTA MAHR.
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