This week in her regular weekly column, Flaming Nora looks incredulously at a Government website which gives travel advice from a WAG
I hate the term WAG, it’s lazy journalism at its worst. However, it seems the term has stuck, like most lazy journalism does. And now, one of those band of WAG women written off as shopaholic, spendthrift wives and girlfriends of the rich and famous is giving advice on how to look good abroad and find the best shops. But her advice isn't in one of the celeb mags, it's on a UK Government travel website. I only wish I was kidding but I'm not.
The Foreign and Commonwealth office have a Know Before You Go Campaign on their website right here. The campaign encourages British nationals to be better prepared for their overseas trips with a view to avoiding common traveling traumas, risks and dangers. So far, so good.
There’s information on making sure your passport is up to date, how to get travel insurance, the right guidebook and all the other bleeding obvious stuff that many of us take for granted when we head off to foreign lands.
But scroll further down the page and what’s that? Why, it’s the WAG’s Guide to Travel written by Charlotte Meares, fiancée of Tottenham Hotspur footy player, Jermain Defoe. So here it is girls, travel insight from a WAG on an official Government website and I kid you not, her advice really does include all of the following:
It might sound trivial but you never know when you might break a nail or your extensions turn green in the pool. To stay looking your best even if you are not taking a personal stylist with you....
Get your jabs - and not just the botox!
Insure those Choos
Remember your ‘must-have’ cosmetics for the plane
Another WAG technique for looking cool and ‘in the know’ is to arrive at your destination wearing something the locals would but with a unique twist - think Henna’d hands in India
And your travel wallet must be stylish gushes Charlotte.
To be fair, there is also some good and decent advice, such as looking after your mates if they’ve had too much to drink. But it all sounds more than a little patronizing coming from a footballer’s wife/girlfriend on a Government website and lumped in with the rest of the superficial and irrelevant 'advice'. [Flaming Nora]