Going Places
What to check before you buy a suitcase you want to keep for a decade
Nothing about a suitcase sitting in a store tells you how it will behave two years from now on a wet platform and a broken elevator. The shell you are looking…
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Going Places
When the train genuinely wins, and when people take it anyway
How to choose the week rather than agonizing over the place
What to sort out in the weeks before you leave, in the order it matters
How to carry documents and money so one bad moment is not a crisis
Nobody loses a wallet on the day they are being careful. It happens on day nine, in a train station, while you are tired and moving a bag with one hand…
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A bag you can carry up two flights of stairs without stopping is a different bag from one you can wheel across an airport. Most packing advice never makes that distinction…
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