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Travelling light.

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What are your tips for travelling light please?

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 7:52 am
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Here, abroad? If abroad, where, as in hot climate, cold?

Do you mean backpacking light or carry on light?

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 7:55 am
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Give yourself small bag and stick to it

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 7:59 am
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Always travel in a vacuum

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 7:59 am
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Or is this three wise men reference?

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 8:00 am
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Anywhere. For example I have icebreaker underwear, because it’s lighter than cotton underwear and dries more easily if I need to wash it.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 8:04 am
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Posted : 11/11/2023 8:05 am
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@TheBrick - I use a 32l rucksack. Large enough to carry a decent amount, but small enough that I can’t carry too much.

 
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Wash your self more so that you can wash your clothes less. Wash your clothes less so you can wear them longer and carry fewer.
Travelling rather than cycling is the true home for merino wool shirts/t-shirts/underwear etc.
Take darker colours so dirt is less visible.
Start off with a small bag to limit yourself that way.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 8:06 am
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Travel sized toiletries make a big difference. Take a small container of laundry detergent so you can hand wash clothes as you go meaning you can take fewer.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 8:49 am
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Avoid UK plugs and adaptors. Get a European* mains lead, and charge things via your laptop USB ports.

* Other destinations are available.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 11:16 am
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Nothing better than jumping on a plane with a sleasy jet sized bag. No hassle.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 11:27 am
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Only travel to warm sunny places where you will do nothing, so you need less stuff.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:22 pm
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Go to a naturist resort?

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:38 pm
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Turn pants inside out to double wear time.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:39 pm
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turn pants inside out.
amateur, any fule knows they can ne worn back to front too.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:44 pm
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It's relative, what's your frame of reference?

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:45 pm
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For general/work travel, a packing cube reduces a weeks worth of clothes into a much smaller bag.

A GAN multiport 100w travel charger cuts down on chargers. And a MacBook Air is bullet proof and small. I’ve discovered they are perfect for dropping on concrete floors during the security check juggling act.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:49 pm
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I think this works. I certainly did it but in the 1990s

You should be able to wear everything (save maybe spare under wear, socks and maybe shorts at once.

Light quick drying trousers and thin thermals. That’s a huge temperature range covered. Synthetic t shirt, medium weight long sleeve base layer, fleece and water proof. That’s a another big temperature range covered from the t shirt to everything all once . If you add more layers make sure they all combine

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:51 pm
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Clothes like t shirts, undies.socks or whatever can be easily purchased, which saves a bit of space. And can be left behind meaning space for the duty free.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 1:52 pm
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What's the smallest backpack size for 3 months around south east Asia?

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 3:05 pm
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It's over a decade ago now but I went hostelling in India twice, once with my 15yo lad and I took him to Peru too.

I found a brilliant website back then for real world methods of working out what you really should take rather than what you think you should take.

I was only away for a month or so at a time but I took a very cheap/lightweight rucksack (25L from memory) and it was ample. A light weight rucky is the easiest first step to go light. Mega hot climate in India so I took cheap polyester "everything". Cotton was horrible, I know some swear by it but I think it's imperceivable. It stinks, takes ages to dry and it looks a mess after being in a rucksack and it stinks up ending in the rucksack. My favourite buy was cheap knock off Under Armor antibac/wicking boxers. I could put them on wet if I really had to and let them dry on me. I only took one pair of shorts, Humvees, excellent. Lots of pockets and dry fast enough to go swimming in them or even shower in them. Great when you are in a hurry.

I remember standing on a train platform in the early hours of the morning with a pool of water around me getting odd looks from the locals.lol

I wore those ultra clichéd hiking sandle things, cheap ones (great to swim in on beaches with sharp rocks) as they are cool, you dont need socks and you can walk into and out of a shower with them.

If I needed any other clothing I would just have bought it cheaply from a market there and donated it to someone when I left.

It was great just hopping onto trains, tuk tuks or whatever with a bag that wasn't much bigger than other people's day bags.

I was in my early 40's at the time, so I was always the old guy at the hostels.Lol Not that anyone gave a crap. I'm fact, some of them marveled at how little I packed as they had huge backpacks and a large day bag they would carry on the front of them. It looked brutal in the heat.

Happy times. I'll see if I can find that site, if it's still there. I was a total noob at hosteling and packing light as I tend to like to pack for every eventuality but the website was a great reality check.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 4:00 pm
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What’s the smallest backpack size for 3 months around south east Asia?

Only just noticed your post. I met a lot of people at the start or end of their whole SE Asia adventures in India. Some had huge amounts of stuff, proper expedition amounts lol, others had much smaller rucksacks and bought/gave away stuff as they went. By that I mean clothing or hiking boots etc. if they were going somewhere a bit extreme. It just takes up too much room and weights too much to lug around.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 4:07 pm
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Be a photon.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 4:42 pm
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My other tip is don’t buy loads of light weight things to take. In total their weight rally adds up

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 5:35 pm
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You only need 1 pair of boxers.
Day 1: Correct way round
Day 2: Back to front
Day 3: Correct way round & inside out
Day 4: Back to front & inside out
Day 5: back to Day 1 and repeat cycle. After 4 days the skiddies will have become crusties and can be picked off.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 5:40 pm
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Only travel to warm sunny places where you will do nothing, so you need less stuff.

Absolutely this. Colleague was off on holiday straight after work with just a 40L holdall.

I tend to do the opposite: cold, rainy, muddy, doing sport (equipment, getting dirty and sweaty), doing multiple sports. For a week away my largish car is full with the bike and gear inside. Not to the roof, but there wouldn't be room for another person.

 
Posted : 11/11/2023 10:00 pm

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