Camping for a week with no electricity

The hotel fridge is the thing to check before you book. Mine was a minibar that did not go cold enough and I found out on arrival.

That is a very clear way of putting something I have never been able to put clearly.

I split everything across two bags in case one goes missing, and on one trip that turned out to be the reason nothing went wrong.

Never in the hold. That is the one thing everybody in this circle agrees on and it is worth repeating on every thread.

What I found is that other people's cooking on holiday was a bigger adjustment than any of the logistics.

The eight-hour difference took me about four days to settle into, and I kept the interval rather than the clock time, on advice.

Aria — yes, and the bit that took me longest to accept was the next part.

I keep the original packaging with the label on it, always, which somebody here recommended and which I gather makes questions much shorter.

The guides here on travel are the ones I actually printed, which is not something I say about much on the internet.

What helped was doing a dry run at home with the cool bag for a full day, so I knew how long it actually held temperature.