{"id":72,"date":"2026-08-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/packing-for-slow-travel\/"},"modified":"2026-11-12T07:51:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:51:26","slug":"packing-for-slow-travel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/packing-for-slow-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"Packing for slow travel: one 30 litre bag for three weeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Three weeks of trains, ferries and walks fit into one 30 litre backpack. The rule is simple: pack for one week and wash on the way. After ten years of slow travel my list has 34 items, and I use every one of them.<\/p>\n\n\n<nav class=\"wp-block-leitvia-table-of-contents\" aria-labelledby=\"leitvia-toc-title\"><h2 id=\"leitvia-toc-title\" class=\"wp-block-leitvia-table-of-contents__title\">On this page<\/h2><ol><li><a href=\"#why-one-small-bag\">Why one small bag<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#clothes-for-a-week\">Clothes for a week<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#for-trains-and-ferries\">For trains and ferries<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#what-i-left-at-home\">What I left at home<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"#the-three-things-i-never-travel-without\">The three things I never travel without<\/a><\/li><\/ol><\/nav>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Why one small bag<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bag you can carry on your back all day changes how you travel. You can walk from the station to the guesthouse, take the bus instead of a taxi and step onto a ferry without looking for luggage racks. And you are never tempted to buy things you would have to carry home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Clothes for a week<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Three shirts that dry overnight<\/li>\n\n<li>Two pairs of trousers, one of them for walking<\/li>\n\n<li>Underwear and socks for four days<\/li>\n\n<li>One warm layer of wool<\/li>\n\n<li>A rain jacket that packs into its own pocket<\/li>\n\n<li>Walking shoes that also look fine in a restaurant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I wash in the evening, every second or third day. Wool and synthetic fabrics dry overnight even in a cold room; cotton does not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group alignfull has-surface-background-color has-background has-global-padding is-content-justification-left is-layout-constrained wp-container-core-group-is-layout-38648931 wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--l);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--l)\">\n\t\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-group is-style-tip is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-41372710 wp-block-group-is-layout-flex is-style-tip--1\">\n\t\t\n\t\t<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized has-custom-border wp-container-content-ff97b86b\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-tilda-portrait.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"has-border-color\" style=\"border-color:var(--wp--preset--color--accent);border-width:0.1875rem;border-radius:var(--wp--preset--border-radius--pill);aspect-ratio:1;object-fit:cover;width:6rem;height:6rem\"\/><\/figure>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group wp-container-content-9cfa9a5a is-layout-flow wp-container-core-group-is-layout-b6bdf96d wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-group is-nowrap is-layout-flex wp-container-core-group-is-layout-015e8dcd wp-block-group-is-layout-flex\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-icon\"><svg style=\"color:var(--wp--preset--color--accent);width:1rem;\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"has-text-color has-accent-color\" focusable=\"false\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\">\n\t<path d=\"M2 9.5a5.5 5.5 0 0 1 9.591-3.676.56.56 0 0 0 .818 0A5.49 5.49 0 0 1 22 9.5c0 2.29-1.5 4-3 5.5l-5.492 5.313a2 2 0 0 1-3 .019L5 15c-1.5-1.5-3-3.2-3-5.5\" \/>\n<\/svg>\n<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"has-accent-color has-text-color has-heading-font-family has-body-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:italic\">My tip<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Roll your clothes and put each kind in a cloth bag. You find things without unpacking everything, and the bags double as a pillow on a night ferry.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<p class=\"has-heading-font-family wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:italic\">Tilda Brennick<\/p>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">For trains and ferries<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A water bottle you can refill<\/li>\n\n<li>A cloth bag for food from the market<\/li>\n\n<li>Earplugs and a sleep mask for night trains<\/li>\n\n<li>A notebook for tickets, times and addresses<\/li>\n\n<li>A paper map of the region<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The notebook is the one I make myself now, the <a href=\"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/product\/route-journal-notebook\/\">Route Journal<\/a>, with a table of stages at the front. The paper map is not nostalgia: it shows you which ferry crossings and railway lines exist, which a phone screen rarely does at a glance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What I left at home<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A second pair of shoes, a laptop, a hairdryer, travel guides on paper and anything I packed for a situation that might happen. If you need something on the way, you can buy it, and you will rarely need it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The three things I never travel without<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A small knife with a corkscrew, packed in the checked bag on the rare flight<\/li>\n\n<li>A scarf that is a blanket, a towel and a sun shade<\/li>\n\n<li>A list of the people I want to send a postcard to<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life.webp\" alt=\"Illustration of a teal backpack between a coral water bottle and a folded map with a dotted route.\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life.webp 1600w, https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life-1200x675.webp 1200w, https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/ferrylight-packing-still-life-600x338.webp 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Backpack, bottle and map: the core of the list.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What fits in one 30 litre backpack for three weeks of trains, ferries and walks, what I left at home after ten years and the three things I never travel without.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,35,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-by-ferry","category-by-train","category-planning"],"leitvia_pattern_status":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":110,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.leitvia.com\/travel-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}