Of all the things that I could be preoccupied about on our trip it’s weight that is featuring pretty highly right now. We’ll be travelling light – by which I mean mega-light, only one small pannier each. This means packing very small and with the minimum of weight.

Last week with the help of the kitchen scales I weighed various items of clothing, passports, shoes, sunglasses etc and so far my luggage is weighing in at just under 3kg. Pretty good, but can I do better? Well I could loose a few grams off the waist (and I’m working on that), as for the luggage the weight reduction challenge continues.