Practice Pack

My daughter thinks we are bit sad!  When I explained to her that today we were going to practice packing the Harley in readiness for our trip, she thought we were being daft.  "What do you need to do that for?  And why do you need to do it now, when you're not going for 4 months?"

I suppose that's probably a good question!  Well, Jill goes over to France for the summer in 10 days' time and before she gets back to the UK, I will have taken the Harley over to France, so this is probably the last opportunity we had to get together the stuff we want to take and make sure we can fit it all in.

We've taken on board all the advice we've read, for example:

1.  Make 2 piles, one for essential kit and one for desirable kit, then discard all the desirable kit!

2.  Put all your kit and all your money on the bed, then halve the amount of kit and double the amount of money!!

3.  Never pack for more than 1 week.

We pared everything down and kept it light and managed to fit everything in to the 2 saddlebags and a small backpack, so it looks like it was a fairly successful rehearsal.  However, there wasn't a lot of spare space - well, there wasn't any spare space!  We may have to try and pare down a little more if we want to leave some room for the odd souvenir!