Packing List for holidays and business trips, hiking, to hotels including Paradores in Spain

Add numbers and/or colours packed to this master list

 WEARING

Travelling Outfit

Crease-free dress or suit

Quick release sandals or shoes and matching socks

Underwear Pants (underpants in the USA)

Bra

Vest

Warm jumper

Gilet

Warm coat and hat/hood

Spectacles, eyewear lanyard

Purse with home and foreign currency

Keys for house, car, home and destination

Driving license

Prescription for medication

CARRYING

Passport and tickets and visas

Addresses, booking forms for hotels, 

names and phone numbers of people to visit

Travel guide

Phrasebook or menu translator

Diary

Notebook and pencil or pan attached

Mobile phone, case, charger, adapters

Laptop and accessories including power cable, mouse, protective bag, label with name and another person's address and tel

Umbrella

FOOD, DRINK, CROCKERY ETC

Coffee maker, coffee, milk

Tea spoon and cutlery and plates and kitchen towels and Zip-loc bags

Phrasebook or dictionary or DIY printed version such as Phrasebook from Wikivoyage

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PACKING

JACKETS

Light summer coat or jacket with hood

Evening jacket

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Evening skirt, top or dress, shoes, necklace

Evening dress or suit

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Casual day wear

Preparation

buy security outfits or sew zips in pockets to prevent items being lost or stolen

Cosmetics

Wash bag including

Shampoo, bath gel, conditioner

nailbrush (for cleaning nails and/or removing mud from shoes and clothes after hiking

Bedroom slippers and thin wrap (Paradores in Spain did not have bedroom slippers, nor bathrobes)

, or cotton wool)

SPORTS & ACTIVITIES

Walking sticks / trekking poles

Ski books, jacket, hat, cloves, socks, warm clothes such as thermal vest and pants.

Tips For Longer Trips & Hikes

Spare elastic for securing pyjama bottoms, tights, shorts, hats.

Shoe glue.

Foot plasters.

First aid kit with first aid instructions. 

Tooth repair kit (sold in larger pharmacies)

Painkillers.

Toothbrush and toothpaste and toothpicks.

Sewing kit with buttons, self-threading needle, snap fasteners, and small scissors.

Nail varnish and remover.

Hair dye (black can be bought in most countries but blonde is hard to find in Asia.)

Comb and hair brush and hair ties or scrunchies.

Folding hood with brim sewn onto jacket collar, or attached with two or three safety pins.

Belt and or braces to hoist trousers out of mud.

Sew Spare buttonhole from discarded old shirt onto tab under trouser legs, with button on outside, to shorten trousers in hot weather or wading through mud or streams or stepping stones.