With Gap years all the rage and world travel so much more accessible than past decades, yet with jet fuel prices so high, is it long before long haul flight operators reduce the luggage weight and size allowance? If so many of us that travel are going to need to evaluate what items can be left at home.
So what do you really need to go travelling for six months? The hardened travellers among us may say two t-shirts, jumper, two trousers, a couple of sets of underwear and a pair of shoes. Of course more than half of this you would be wearing during the journey!
This may be unrealistic for some so we have decided to look at a few useful essentials that should be taken with your selection of clothes and shoes.
A sleep mask can really be useful whilst away travelling. So light that it hardly makes a difference to your load, but can be used to help you ease into a different time zone and block out the light in those badly curtained youth hostels but also when sharing those ghastly rooms, a sleep mask avoids having to look at other people at there most vulnerable!
Flip flops can be of massive benefit. Again, light and non-bulky yet can be used out and about but also in the showers where all of those communal delights lurk on the floor!
A travel towel can be of great benefit, quick to dry but also the size and weight benefits compared to a normal towel should not be ignored.
Of course there are many tricks of travelling such as these above but there is always an amount of common sense involved. You just have to ask yourself, do I really need that? Hopefully when you are looking at the book War and Peace and your hairdryer the answer is obvious.