What's Inwards My Bag: Manus Luggage Alone Edition

In Nov ane of my move dreams came true: I bought a ticket to Cuba. Nine days inwards the province of cigars, Che Guevara too classic cars; I could non live on happier. My ticket too accommodation were non inexpensive though, too equally I'd live on staying at an all-inclusive hotel I'd also remove maintain to pay for solar daytime trips to Havana too the Yumuri Valley. instead of taking my park (and unremarkably cheaper) backpacking approach. Due to lack of time, I went alongside the all-inclusive selection for ane time but even thus tried to go on it equally low-budget equally possible. This way that I didn't desire to fork out some other €50 only thus I could convey a suitcase total of clothes I in all likelihood wasn't going to apparel anyway. So I decided to accept paw luggage only. Nine days on the other side of the Blue Planet alongside alone ane niggling bag: here's how I managed it too what I took alongside me!

Maybe it was a niggling misleading to speak well-nigh a handbag when I genuinely took a real small-scale suitcase. I got this niggling guy from a friend of my dad's. Expert is the refer of an electronics shop inwards the Netherlands too my dad's friend owns the local branch. He had this suitcase only lying some inwards the dorsum of his shop too decided to give it to us (thank y'all ane time more, Robert!). Since too thus it's accompanied me to Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Ljubljana too Edinburgh. It's 45x35x15 cm, which way it's precisely small-scale plenty to accept onto whatsoever plane from whatsoever airline equally paw luggage. This fourth dimension some I was lucky to remove maintain a weight boundary of 10 kgs, which was amazing. I unremarkably pack light, thus the alone matter I had to practise was pose everything inwards at that spot similar I was playing Tetris inwards 3D. Usually it barely takes me whatsoever endeavour to fit everything in, but this fourth dimension Hand Luggage Tetris was real difficult, thanks to a swimming mask.

Yes, I bought myself ane of those masks from Decathlon that brand y'all hold off similar a Teletubby. Normal masks don't piece of job for me: I remove maintain quite chubby cheeks, which way the mask can't completely follow the lines of my otherwise small-scale face. As a result, H2O ever trickles in, which makes me panic. Apart from that, I'm pretty much blind without spectacles too this mask made it possible for me to attach my onetime spectacles to it alongside washi record thus I could genuinely see a fish or two. My bikini, also from Decathlon, genuinely matches the mask's shade of blue. Usually I don't assist much well-nigh matching anything, but this made me real happy. It's the niggling things, y'all know.

With the mask taking upwardly a lot of space, I positioned my shorts too shirts some it. I was left alongside smaller items similar sock too underwear to fill upwardly up small-scale opened upwardly spaces inwards the suitcase that would otherwise become to waste. I'm non showing those because I'm pretty certain no ane wants to see my socks too underwear - they're all boring. Same goes for my pajamas. Anyway, I picked 3 tank tops for this trip: ane black, ane white too ane the coloring of rust. My honey shorts alongside pugs on it made the cut, only similar a grayness shirt alongside an enormous due east on it.
I had to run my (non-existent) fashion feel to pick shorts that I could easily apparel alongside these tops. I chose a denim ane which I've had forever too some brusk sweatpants. I also took my elephant shorts from Thailand alongside me. They're non equally tardily to combine equally the others, but I love them too select handgrip of every remove chances I instruct to apparel them.
I also added the pants I wore to Angkor Wat. They're perfect for warmer climates, but even thus embrace plenty of my legs to go on the Sun from burning my legs to a crisp within minutes.
Now 2010 Envy would remove maintain crinkled her olfactory organ if she knew what I'd also packed: a niggling beach apparel y'all powerfulness recognize from my Instagram feed. There was a fourth dimension when I absolutely hated dresses, but straight off I love wearing them. This ane is perfect to apparel over my bikini when I'm on my way to the beach or the puddle (or when other parts of me are burning to a crisp).

I wasn't certain I was going to become on runs during my visit, but I packed my running gear too pose my running shoes on on the solar daytime of divergence anyway. Better prophylactic than sorry. I hadn't been able to apparel the banana go yesteryear I'd bought inwards Bangkok inwards ages, thus I took it alongside me to Cuba. Those are all the clothes I took alongside me inwards my niggling suitcase. I run the clothes I apparel on the solar daytime of divergence equally my wildcard: lots of layers too everything I could maaaaybe need. In this case, I wore ripped jeans, some other niggling apparel too a hoodie. Let me tell you, on the showtime 2 days inwards Republic of Cuba I was glad I had jeans too a hoodie to apparel to dinner. It got mutual frigidness genuinely fast afterward sunset.

Clothing done, side yesteryear side up: toiletries! No fancy bags for me, I only took a ziplock alongside the essentials: toothbrush, toothpaste, sunscreen, shower gel too a sponge. I didn't pack soap, shampoo too towels because I assumed the hotel would supply those items (which it did). All of the fluids are 100ml products, the absolute maximum. The ziplock is also to a greater extent than or less necessary: I would remove maintain to unpack a fancy niggling handbag at the aerodrome because it's non transparent. Airport safety problems.
My hairbrush wasn't within the ziplock yesteryear the way: I don't similar it when my toothbrush touches my hairbrush. Not at all.

I kept my electronics to a minimum equally well: phone, photographic television set camera too chargers. I demeanour my cry upwardly inwards the pocket of my jeans, thus only its charger was inwards my suitcase. My photographic television set camera is well-protected within its ain niggling bag, which my mom flora at a thrift store. It's perfect: it's precisely the size of my photographic television set camera too has plenty of storage infinite for my street fine art stickers, a spare lense cap too my concern cards (hey, y'all never know who you're going to meet).

Of course of written report I also took my blogging equipment too a majority alongside me. When I tell 'blogging equipment' I hateful my 2 notebooks. Every shipping service y'all see hither on is showtime written yesteryear hand, no network involved. The biggest pro of this organization is that I tin write whenever too wherever I want. All I demand is a pen or pencil, for which I remove maintain a small-scale pencil case, which I got on final summer's Finnair flying - because no ane wants to remove maintain pens, pencils, markers, erasers too washi record wander all through their luggage during a trip.

Just this ane time I also took my favorite tote handbag alongside me. Every fourth dimension I see a novel country, I coloring it on my handbag on the solar daytime of arrival. I'm completely inwards love alongside this bad too it's alone made my move addiction worse. I made Republic of Cuba red. Because communism. I'm thus clever.

All these things were inwards the brain compartment of the suitcase, but there's also a small-scale front end pocket. This is where I kept my flipflops too sandals, which y'all tin see inwards my awkward outfit pictures. The majority from the previous film was also stored here, only similar my diary, thus I could easily attain them during the flight. I can't become anywhere without a book, but on trips similar this ane I unremarkably accept a inexpensive majority from the thrift store. I wouldn't recommend the majority inwards the film yesteryear the way.
My diary too I are also inseparable. Keeping a diary has a calming upshot on me. It's also a perfect house to go on my photograph props. The niggling cards I run for my Instagram posts were inwards the envelope attached to the within of the embrace of my diary.

With these items too my Tetris skills, I managed to become to the other side of the Blue Planet for nine days alongside paw luggage only. It's genuinely non that difficult: pack the essentials, retrieve well-nigh what y'all genuinely can't alive without, similar I can't alive without my blogging notebooks, too what y'all could purchase at your destination, similar lather for example. Good luck packing!

x Envy

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