Our little spray bottle has been invaluable. We started off in UK with having a spray bottle from SA that had a motorised fan as well. The fan was pretty much ineffectual but the spray fabulous. We've since lost that one and replaced it with a bottle we found in Jordan. It is filled with whatever water is to hand and the fine misting on your skin provides enough evaporation to keep you cool even in the desert even with hot water.
The fan has lived in our roof tent since Syria. It runs off 8 D-Cell batteries (Our Find of the Week page chats about the batteries we are using) that last for 8 hours on low which is the speed we generally use, has a 12V and 220V input although running this directly off battery without being attached to mains drains the battery. When we use this in conjunction with the spray - bliss!!!!
This idea came from a chat with Trevor's brother-in-law (thanks, Pete!!) who keeps a bottle of water under the aircon outlet in his Land Cruiser cab. We found the cup holders in CarCraft in UK. They can be used for most bottle sizes up to 500ml and also hold our insulated mugs. A bottle of 40degC water cools down in front of the aircon within 20 minutes. Trevor calls it our 3rd fridge!
