Travel Tip Of The Day – Travel Light!

Whether you’re backpacking, doing a road trip, staying in hotels, long journey or short, from my experience of travelling over the years, the best advice I can give is be prepared, but travel *light*!

You’ll be surprised as to how little you actually *need* when travelling. I know Nathan did half a year around the world using a single medium sized backpack – not a tramping pack, just a normal backpack of about 15 – 20 litres (was that about right Nathan?)  Of course if you’re travelling in Winter you’ll need a bit more in the way of warm clothing, but still, I’m sure one backpack would do the job.

So when I started putting my kit together for this trip, I was happy to know that everything I needed and wanted to take with me could fit into the backpack you see here in the picture! The other bag is a trumpet case – not a necessary item, but I wanted to do some practise on the road.

And one of the biggest benefits of travelling light? No checked luggage!! haha! Whilst the other travellers were still waiting for their 20kg backpacks and suitcases to appear on the airport baggage claim, I had alreadycleared customs and was out of the airport So, the weight of my backpack was 7.2 kgs before leaving Stockholm – but that included a bit of extra food for the stopovers at the various airports – saving a *lot* of money!  The reactions from the check-in clerks is pretty funny though when they see the destination of my flight (over 20,000km from the point of origin) and my answer to their question of “How many checked bags do you have, sir?” is “None”

Here’s everything I’m taking with me on my travels: