frankfurt
the flight from singapore to frankfurt was tweleve and a half hours. luckily, i spend most of those hours unconcious, sleeping it off. there was a lot to sleep off after three days or running around singapore.
on our last day we spend four hours exploring the zoo, where orang utans run freely in the trees above your heads, they have white tigers, lot of exotic monkeys and even komodo dragons [which are not intimidating when viewed from a distance]. we went downtown - one last really cheap lunch, got a pair of adidas on the really cheap and we were on the way airport [on the way we took a shower, had dinner and re packed our bags. you could say we had a small detour on the way].
this flight was very uneventful [i.e. - i didn't throw up]. my dad picked us and our excess luggage up - after singapore we were up to a big backpack, a daypack and a seperate sleeping bag each. and i was carrying a box of shoes.
i was and still am amazed by the amount of "unneccessary crap" i have in my big pack. clothes were a pretty minor item. besides the fact the i spent the last two months living inside my icebreaker sweater and in one pair of shorts, anything made out of cotton did not even make it back from singapore. just one t shirt. the rest was thrown out after three months of constant washings, stains and wear and tear. come to that, my rain jacket was too stained and smelly to wear, but i actually washed it up.
so, my backpack was weighing in at 12 kilos, with only one pair of jeans inside. the rest was cookware, survive-ware, first aid, really first aid, mabe half a kilo of sunscreen, bug block and apre bite stuff, all sort of other assorted sanitary staff. lots of cables abd adapters as well.
luckily, most of this junk only accumulated to this proportions just before renting a car. i only spent a couple of days lugging this [and my kitchen. you have to carry around your kitchen bag] around new zealand in busses.
i have left some stuff here before i left. i definetly remember i did. it was all waiting for me. but i think the amount of stuff doubled itself over the past two months. you learn to appriacte having less - less to carry, less to lose, less mess.
the least useful item i had with me was my fleece. i don't know how fleece became this popular, but someone in advertising and the whole travel gear industry is making a lot of money. really, it has lots of static electricity. mine was not even hot. it's very bulky and heavy in comparison to merino wool. and if i were to go to bulky synthetic - there's a wonderfull not too expensive material called technocore. Mammut does amazing stuff with it - shirts which keep you toasted when a fleece hardly keeps you warm. no reason to use fleece. medicore results for not too cheap of a price. i could not ship mine home, too heavy and expensive, so i was stuck with lugging it around new zealand. damn them indeed.
on our last day we spend four hours exploring the zoo, where orang utans run freely in the trees above your heads, they have white tigers, lot of exotic monkeys and even komodo dragons [which are not intimidating when viewed from a distance]. we went downtown - one last really cheap lunch, got a pair of adidas on the really cheap and we were on the way airport [on the way we took a shower, had dinner and re packed our bags. you could say we had a small detour on the way].
this flight was very uneventful [i.e. - i didn't throw up]. my dad picked us and our excess luggage up - after singapore we were up to a big backpack, a daypack and a seperate sleeping bag each. and i was carrying a box of shoes.
i was and still am amazed by the amount of "unneccessary crap" i have in my big pack. clothes were a pretty minor item. besides the fact the i spent the last two months living inside my icebreaker sweater and in one pair of shorts, anything made out of cotton did not even make it back from singapore. just one t shirt. the rest was thrown out after three months of constant washings, stains and wear and tear. come to that, my rain jacket was too stained and smelly to wear, but i actually washed it up.
so, my backpack was weighing in at 12 kilos, with only one pair of jeans inside. the rest was cookware, survive-ware, first aid, really first aid, mabe half a kilo of sunscreen, bug block and apre bite stuff, all sort of other assorted sanitary staff. lots of cables abd adapters as well.
luckily, most of this junk only accumulated to this proportions just before renting a car. i only spent a couple of days lugging this [and my kitchen. you have to carry around your kitchen bag] around new zealand in busses.
i have left some stuff here before i left. i definetly remember i did. it was all waiting for me. but i think the amount of stuff doubled itself over the past two months. you learn to appriacte having less - less to carry, less to lose, less mess.
the least useful item i had with me was my fleece. i don't know how fleece became this popular, but someone in advertising and the whole travel gear industry is making a lot of money. really, it has lots of static electricity. mine was not even hot. it's very bulky and heavy in comparison to merino wool. and if i were to go to bulky synthetic - there's a wonderfull not too expensive material called technocore. Mammut does amazing stuff with it - shirts which keep you toasted when a fleece hardly keeps you warm. no reason to use fleece. medicore results for not too cheap of a price. i could not ship mine home, too heavy and expensive, so i was stuck with lugging it around new zealand. damn them indeed.
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