Backpacking tips

Backpacking

Packing light makes it easier to move around Europe, moreover, you will have less to worry about.

The most important thing to do before packing is check the weather of all the countries you are visiting and make a packing list. Then, at the time you are packing, you will not miss anything, and not only before the trip, also when you change country.

But if this is your first time backpacking, this won't be enough for you. So here you have some things to pack:

First aid kit with basics: eye drops, lergyc pills, plasters, athsma inhaler, paracetamol...

Deodorant and sunscreen because you'll be walking for hours under the sun each day

• Photocopies of all your documents: european health card, passport, ID, travel insurance, boarding passes, Interrail pass and map...

• Credit card because it is safer and takes up less space in your bag

• Money: not all european countries use euro, so it may change in each country

• Padlock: a basic if you'rev going to sleep in hostels

• Driving licence: that is valid in all European Union, which is not the same that in all Europe

• Adapter: countries like Denmark, Switzerland ot England use different plugs, voltages... that the frest of countries

• Multiswitch plug because hostals, hotels or flats can have one or two outles in each room, and with this you can buy only one adapter for three or four chargers

• A small alarm clock because the mobile phone can fail