What’s in your gadget travel bag, Guru?

AIdeally, Guru’s travel bag is completely empty and stowed in his loft below the second-line Christmas decorations and the box of questionable 1970s reading material, left behind by the previous owner of Guru Towers, the contents of which Mrs Guru must never be told about.

As a gleaming beacon of the tech world, however, Ol’ Gagu is often courted to attend galas and launches the world over. Thus, his gadget bindle gets filled. First in is the Skross World Travel Adapter MUV US B (£20) which adapts UK plugs into about every worldwide socket type and, crucially, includes a proper ground pin rather than a plastic dummy in order that Guru doesn’t electrify himself.

Next, the teeniest laptops that GaGu can stand to use: both the HP Spectre 13 (about £1,150, and lovely with it) and the 12-inch Apple MacBook (too expensive at £1,250, but it’s a Mac), because everyone needs options and even the pair of them together don’t yank at the spine too severely.

There are other essentials to consider; Guru favours a travel phone with a dual SI M – the £500 OnePlus 5T is perfectly fine – so he can get local data rates and still stay in touch with the folks back home. RFID shielding for the passport via a Victorinox passport holder (£27) offers a touch of reassurance, and a shielded wallet (a Dents one, around £30) packed with pre-paid cards goes some way to preventing his bank manager from getting too upset.

There’s also the tedium to think of. Guru tends to select his gaming flavour on the day; sometimes it’s the Nintendo Switch (£279), sometimes it’s the impossibly small Windows gaming handheld, the GPD Win (£449), but often it’s his trusty Game Boy Advance SP , because it has a battery that easily lasts a whole flight.