Post by snorkelman on Apr 29, 2002 13:00:35 GMT -5
Another tip comes in handy if you are reading this at least a week before you fly to Europe.
If you have some old clothes that you are going to throw out – do not throw them out.
Set them aside and place them into ziplocks and pack them into your backpack at the top (so that they will be the first clothes that you encounter when you open your backpack).
Wear this old clothing for your first week in Europe. When it is dirty, just throw it away or leave it in a hostel. This allows you to lighten your backpack and also allows you to travel for about 2 weeks without doing laundry (at the end of your second week you will only have 1 week’s worth of dirty clothes to wash (because you have discarded the other week’s worth of clothes).
I did not come up with this idea, so I will not pretend that I did. It is a great idea and I only wish that I had learned about it years ago!
If you have some old clothes that you are going to throw out – do not throw them out.
Set them aside and place them into ziplocks and pack them into your backpack at the top (so that they will be the first clothes that you encounter when you open your backpack).
Wear this old clothing for your first week in Europe. When it is dirty, just throw it away or leave it in a hostel. This allows you to lighten your backpack and also allows you to travel for about 2 weeks without doing laundry (at the end of your second week you will only have 1 week’s worth of dirty clothes to wash (because you have discarded the other week’s worth of clothes).
I did not come up with this idea, so I will not pretend that I did. It is a great idea and I only wish that I had learned about it years ago!