Day 55/365: One Bagging To the Extreme

Tomorrow morning, following my night shift I’ll be off on the Eurostar to enjoy a few days on the continent. While packing, Ithought I’d take my Patagonia Black Hole Micro MLC backpack. But on further reflection, I thought “let’s take this further.” 

So what was going to be my day pack, the Patagonia Atom 8L one strap backpack, is now my full pack for the trip. It is the lightest I’ve packed for a trip, perhaps ever. I will be away for three nights and the best part of four days. In my bag I have:

• A spare set of underwear
• A spare set of socks
• A spare t-shirt
• Layla’s camera
• Passport
• Phone charger
• Anthony Bourdain’s book ‘The Nasty Bits’

I’ve got a change of clothes for after work and a head full of ideas of where I want to go and what I want to do. First stop will be Lille, followed by a flight down to Nice in the evening. I’ll pop into Malta for coffee and lunch before heading over to Marseille for a flight to Malta. 

In the biggest sense of the phrase, I’ve got the “clothes off my back” and pretty much nothing else. I’ve got a hotel at Marseille Airport and the plan is to do a sink wash there if I need to. What more do you need to travel other than a head full of dreams, the clothes on your back, and a good book?

I’ll be visiting two new countries in Malta and Monaco and a couple of new cities in France, which I’m really looking forward to.

Tomorrow, I’ll be reporting from Lille.