I’m considering onebagging through Italy and France in May by train, no airplane travel involved. Do you have any tips or tricks for doing that? We’ll be two women traveling, no formal events to attend or special equipment activities planned.
I’m considering onebagging through Italy and France in May by train, no airplane travel involved. Do you have any tips or tricks for doing that? We’ll be two women traveling, no formal events to attend or special equipment activities planned.
Even though going by train will free you from carry on size limits, still try and stay light.
How long are you planning on traveling? Have you done much onebagging before?
We’ll be traveling for between two and three weeks. This will be my longest trip with only a small ish backpack, but I have done a week before.
At that length, one of the biggest changes from a week long trip was laundry. If you’re staying places with washing machines, you still have to take into consideration detergent. You might be able to get small amounts locally, but I ended up only being able to find large bottles of heavily perfumed liquids that were a pain to deal with. Dryers were non-existent or ineffective, so having the time and tools for air drying were also important. Local Laundromats had the detergent built into the cycle, but again it was heavily perfumed. But they were the only place with working dryers. There’s always sink laundry in a pinch; this has some recommendations.
Having clothes that you don’t have to wash as often helps as well; there’s a reason every one bag site recommends merino wool in spite of its price. It picks up odors less which also means you can reduce some of the pieces you’d take just to be able to have clean clothes on any given day.
I guess I’ll be traveling with a baggie of white stuff, then! I’ll bring some from home, as well as a line for air drying. Thank you for the link, I had completely forgotten about inflatable hangers.