I usually travel with minimal luggage. But in the last couple of years my trips have always involved motorbikes, camping, or cold weather. Each of which need special clothing or equipment.
On this trip, none of those things were a concern. So I thought I’d do an experiment to see just how little it was possible to take.
The premise:
- 5 days and 4 nights in Italy
- No luggage or bags of any kind
- No ‘travel’ clothing, e.g. cargo vests or zip-off convertible trousers
- No buying anything (except food, tickets and accomodation)
Here is everything I took:
Clockwise from top left:
- trainers
- sunglasses
- wallet (space for 4 cards and a few notes)
- clear plastic bag (for airport security)
- contact lenses × 7
- toothbrush (cut down on a bench grinder)
- 25ml toothpaste
- waterproof jacket
- merino wool t-shirt
- merino wool underpants
- swim shorts
- merino wool socks
- headphones
- phone (with Maps.me installed)
- passport
- European socket to USB adapter
- USB to lightning cable
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