"There seemed a good deal of luggage, when we put it all together. There was the Gladstone and the small hand-bag, and the two hampers, and a large roll of rugs, and some four or five overcoats and macintoshes, and a few umbrellas, and then there was a melon by itself in a bag, because it was too bulky to go in anywhere, and a couple of pounds of grapes in another bag, and a Japanese paper umbrella, and a frying pan, which, being too long to pack, we had wrapped round with brown paper.
It did look a lot, and Harris and I began to feel rather ashamed of it, though why we should be, I can't see."
- Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (1889)
In the grand tradition of luggage excess, we are heading off on a boating holiday tomorrow. At least we don't have to pack the frying pan.
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That's one of my favourite books!!
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