01/04/2026
📱 7 Apps for Travel 📱
🙌 what3words
This is a brilliant app for locking in a location, and for finding your way back to your parked vehicle in a strange city, a shop or restaurant you want to revisit, or even your hotel. Click on the arrow and the app gives you three English words that tag your location, precise to within three square metres anywhere on the globe. Save it, add a label and when you need to return, the app steers you back to this exact spot. See what3words.com
🙌 Currency XE
A pretty good currency conversion app.
🙌 Atlas Obscura
If you want to add something strange and different to your travels, this is the app for you. Billing itself “The Definitive Guide To The World’s Hidden Wonders”, Atlas Obscura tells you where to find the weird, the offbeat and the downright unmissable, from the world’s largest ball of string in Darwin, Minnesota to a “sweating” pillar in a Roman church, said to predict the death of the pope.
🙌 WhatsApp
Can’t travel without it! Most places communicate via this app.
🙌 Waze
I love getting behind the wheel when it’s available and Waze is my go-to direction finding app. It’s got a bunch of funky voices. Waze warns you of road hazards, speed cameras and police radar traps. See waze.com
🙌 AccuWeather
From Wind Ridge, Pennsylvania, to Torrent, Spain, AccuWeather tells you whether it’s a sunblock or an umbrella day. Sourcing its data from a huge weather network, AccuWeather comes up trumps with an easy-to-read interface plus radar, long-range forecast, air quality and health outlook. See app.accuweather.com/app-download
🙌 Google Translate
Key in the word or phrase in English and back comes a written response in any one of over 100 languages. Record someone in another language, or snap a photo of a sign or a menu in Polish or Portuguese, and you’ll get an English language translation. See translate.google.com/about