Kaput means bushed, done in, which is the current slang for Europe’s summer backpackers. Now if you’re a parent whose only daughter just walked out the door for Europe with a backpack, don’t panic. There is always backpacker travel insurance.

It is said by the US department of Transportation that 99.5 percent of every 2 million bags that people bring at the airport arrive with the passenger on the same flight. That leaves 5 per cent that are mishandled, which means that the bags don’t arrive with the passenger, arrive damaged or arrive with items missing. Consider this a negligible statistic but 5 percent of 2 million bags are about 10,000 bags.

A single journey to eight countries with just one effort or a leave for the weekend, whatever your travel itinerary may be, it should be free of hassles. There are times that they don’t go out as how we wanted. There are chances when it could not even start, like if we catch an ailment or if our departure was called off. You might get the shock of your life after you arrive in your hotel exhausted after a long day of sightseeing when you cannot find your luggage and your room seems to have been raided. Maybe you broke a leg when you went skiing, came down with a fever, or worse you had a car catastrophe.