How can I back up travel documents?

I have something to add to the advice in Computeractive's 'Book a better holiday' feature about keeping a copy of travel documents in your email account.

I created a new account just for this purpose but the best way to ensure the documents don’t get lost in the hundreds of emails that inevitably arrive while you are on holiday is to add a label to the emails.

Select all the emails with the travel documents by clicking in the boxes on the left of the email row. Click on the Labels button, type travel and then click on ‘travel’ (create new) that appears below the text box.

When my daughter was mugged in Peru the embassy issued a temporary passport from a scanned copy.

This allowed her to carry on travelling, while her bank cards were stopped and re-issued.

John Harrold

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