Having hauled my over-packed and very heavy rucksack (plus various hand carried bags too) from Walthamstow to Clapham and back again this past couple of weeks, having generally shuttled back and forth between North and South London with various bags, and finally packing for the last time to leave London, I now have all the motivation I need to travel light! I simply cannot carry anywhere near this amount of stuff with me on this trip – it was hard enough traipsing across London and back!
On top of this, I realised I had too many (heavy) bags to catch the train I had to hire a car to take all of my stuff to Southampton tomorrow. Easier said than done when both parts of your driving licence are in Southampton and you have no proof of address, let alone the two utility bills requested. If it all goes ok tomorrow, I will publicly thank the car hire company that helped me out with this.
Here is a picture of my over packed rucksack. It expands from 45 to 55 litres if needs be. I think I stuffed it with about 60 litres here!
Over-packed rucksack and various bags I shuttled between Walthamstow and Clapham on public transport (the Birkenstocks went in the bin though)
Because I am generally obsessed with packing lists, packing for this trip feels like the ultimate packing list test. I should also say that I am absolutely crap at packing, despite more than 10 years of travelling for work and holidays. For all you other packing list geeks out there (are there any?) my next post will be about packing my (now alarmingly small) rucksack.
And for all you cat lovers out there, here is a picture of Kit Kat, Quita and Gianni’s cat that I was looking after in Clapham.
A not very flattering photo of Kit Kat. She's quite cute really and has a foot fetish!
trying to travel light 