Thursday, November 26, 2009

A week to go and my room looks like the back dorm of the Dublin youth hostel - an explosion of Lonely Planet Guides, agent-orange-strength mosquito repellant, trousers that zip into shorts (trorts?), headlamps, sleeping sheets, first-aid kits, tundra ready sleeping bag and - in the centre of the maelstrom optimistically gaping, a teeny little backpack ... somehow I think the whole rolling-clothes-space-saving packing technique isn't going to cut it ...

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  1. If you drop a small naked singularity into your pack you will be amazed at how much more stuff you can fit in.
    Disadvantage is you might not be able to get it back. Depends on which theoretical physicist you speak to. Are you taking one along?

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  2. Hmm so if I do that my backpack would become an object of infinite density ... well that certainly fits ... it's bloody heavy ..

    No room for a physicist - already packed a palaeontologist for when I visit my all time geek mecca in S Africa, the museum that houses the Coelacanth ...

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