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| Found this beautiful image on a site offering advice on how not to lose your luggage! |
Our bags are packed. Well, I think they are packed. We may well repack them in the morning.
Times have changed, though. The first time I went travelling, after uni as so many of us do, the only communications tools we had were postcards, aerograms, public phones in telephone booths, and landlines (but we didn't know they were called landlines back then).
Seven years ago, before Miles could walk, we had a single mobile phone without apps, capable of only sending text messages. There were no huge bills to pay, because there was no data roaming to worry about, no updates to constantly download, no GPS navigation to track our every move. We could even give the phone to Miles to distract him in his stroller and the worst that could happen was that he might accidentally call someone back home (and he did).
Today, I am packing so much technology - phones, cameras, a Kindle, a Nintendo DS, a mini-laptop - and all the adaptors and cords that we need to keep them running.
Forget the clothes and the books. No room left.
