#1. Make an inventory. 

By making an inventory very first thing earlier than packing, you’re eliminating any chance of you forgetting one thing. Make your record just a few days previous to your departure, so you may alter it to your wants by including necessities or deleting pointless issues.

#2. First Help Equipment

Nevertheless brief your journey might be, nevertheless near house or crowded, by no means go away your first assist equipment behind. I acquired mine from boots in London and I alter it to the wants of every journey. My journey to Africa, for instance, demanded particular care: drugs for malaria and a mosquito repellent have been a number of the necessities. You will positively want considerably much less for a visit in Greece, so go forward and alter the contents accordingly.

#3. Title Tag & Locker

If you happen to’re travelling by airplane, practice, ship or any technique of transport that will not permit you the supervision of your baggage, a reputation tag and a locker is crucial. Particularly for airplane journeys. Ensure your suitcase has a reputation tag together with your full title, e mail and cellphone quantity written in it. Keep away from writing any addresses – particularly that of your own home.

#4. Rolling Rolling

I’ve talked about it one million instances earlier than each in my packing recommendations on the weblog and stay on tv: folding is off – rolling is on. With just a few exceptions – shirts want one other form of particular therapy and identical goes for delicate textiles – all garments must be folded inside your suitcase. You replenish any empty house, you keep away from getting crinkles in your garments and finally, you shield them. That easy.

#5. Observe the MINI SIZE rule

#6. Arrange your outfits

#7. Test the climate

A visit to the Greek islands, as predictable as it may be on the facet of climate, it could be affected by the robust Aegean winds. Take a look at the climate on the place of your vacation spot and pack a cardigan. If you happen to’re travelling overseas, you need to thorougly test the climate throughout your keep – particularly if the local weather is totally reverse than that of your nation. 

#8. Chargers and cables

 

#12. Devices

Until you are happening a expertise-free journey, I suppose you will be having just a few of them with you. Your smartphone, a digicam, a pair of headphones, your iPad or laptop computer – they rely in your wants and preferences. 
 

#13. Preserve any valuables with you

Νever pack your passport in your suitcase, by no means go away any valuables in a bag you will not be having with you always. Preserve the whole lot of worth on you – no exceptions. Moreover, maintain a photocopy of your passport inside your suitcase.

#14. Don’t overpack

It’s virtually sure that every time you pack, there are two further items inside your suitcase that you simply will not be utilizing throughout your journey. It is all the time the identical previous story: you want that shirt and the one beneath and you will positively going to want that pair of footwear and so forth. To keep away from overpacking, take that further piece you packed final out of the suitcase.
 

#15. Preserve all the mandatory proper on prime

Preserve the whole lot you are going to use extra on prime of the suitcase, so they are going to be simply accessible to you and you will not should make a large number of a bag looking for them. For example, pack your pajamas or a cardigan you will put on most, final.
 

#16. Pack your footwear the correct manner

Let me outline “proper”. To start with, pack them individually. Footwear should be positioned inside mud baggage – I maintain those from my purses – and put in between empty areas on the inside of your suitcase. I all the time wash the dustbags I take advantage of to pack my footwear after each journey.
 

#17. The co-traveler’s suitcase

If you happen to’re touring together with your finest buddy or boyfriend, be sure you have an outfit inside his/hers bag. It’s a life-saving methodology, particularly when you’re touring by airplane since there’s a excessive probability of you having your suitcase misplaced/delayed. Until you may have a carry-on with all the mandatory with you.
 

#18. Girls FOR YOU

If you happen to’re touring to an island, you will positively want the next:
Sun shades
Kimono
Massive hat
Sunscreen
Bathing swimsuit
Sandals/Platforms/Flip flops
Seashore bag
White costume

# 19. Underwear

Your underwear ought to positioned inside separate baggage – and even pillow circumstances. Stuff your bras together with your bottoms to avoid wasting house and stop them from shedding their form when packed.

# 20. It smells good!

Use scented tissue paper for clothes to maintain your garments recent and clear – it helps take up the additional humidity created in airplane journeys. 

Maria Kalymnou

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