Italy in the Spring is not as warm as you think, I’ve touched upon inappropriate tourist dressing in this post. For example, tomorrow will be 23 degrees Celsius (73.4 Fahrenheit) and sunny, however, today was 15 Celsius (59 Fahrenheit) with wind and rain!
So I’ll admit that I’m not the best packer in the world….or at least I used to be AWFUL at packing before I became a mom but I am slowly getting better.
As a traveling 20 year old, I would often vacation with a 25 kg (like 55 lbs) suitcase! When I met my husband, my suitcase was something like 70 lbs and I had to pay a $250 weight surcharge fee at the airport ….what the heck was so important that I needed to spend that kind of extra money to bring it with me on vacation?
Now, I realize that I just wasn’t very good at planning in advance and thinking about the weather at my destination.
Fast forward to now.
These days I often take vacations alone with my toddler and am responsible for lugging around stuff for the both of us. I’ve taken him on trans-atlantic flights alone, to the beach for two weeks alone (two times) and recently returned from a 6 day trip to Rome alone.
Lugging around a kid with stroller and his bag of toys, snacks, diapers and water a purse his stuff for 6 days toiletries my stuff for 6 days a computer, camera and chargers on the Rome subway, tram, bus and trains is not an easy feat!
To prepare for what I would want to wear I spent the night before doing some outfit combinations.
I started off with a few basics and worked from there. I only needed to dress for 6 days and these are the outfits I came up with using:
I came up with 13 outfit combinations that did NOT include repeat outfits. My conclusion?? TOO MANY!
That’s when I figured I had too much stuff in the mix and for 6 days all I needed was
I was comfortable the whole trip, had plenty of changes of clothes and took up very little packing space.
I know there are backpacking moms that can get away with one top and one pair of pants etc. but hey it is important to remember that I’m in Italy, quite possibly the most fashionable country on the planet AND I’m definitely not a backpacking type. Having said that I would love to hear what you pack for week long trips and what the spring is like where you live!
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