#cabin
The cabin bag everyone recommends, and I skip
The 40x30x20 size is one airline's boarding gauge, not a standard. Twenty-four litres advertised, an EU rule not yet in force, no purchase.
The power bank you can't turn on anymore
"Allowed on the plane" is right there in the listing's title. That's true. Allowed to board doesn't mean allowed to use it.
The panel-loading cabin bag that stopped me swearing
An on-paper analysis of a 40 L panel-loading cabin bag, after the missed-bus episode in Chiang Mai.
I forgot my padlock combination, the night before departure
A thousand combinations, forty minutes sitting on a bed, and a discovery more embarrassing than the memory lapse itself.
A room with no clothesline, in Lisbon, in January
Two t-shirts washed in a sink, a room at fourteen degrees, five objects from the same family, and only one that doesn't add a problem.
The silk sleeping bag liner deserves better than its reputation
A summer-camp object, a stated hundred and twenty grams, and a question you only ask yourself once you're lying down.