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In order to get a better overview, I split my luggage into 8 categories. The weight of my equipment altogether was about 30 kg. It depended on how much drinks and food I took with me.

 

Office

• passport; beide noch mind. 6 Monate gültig und getrennt aufbewahrt

• money (€)

• credit card

• health assurance for foreign countries

• mobile phone

• informations about the tour; e.g. frontier laws, adresses of the embassies, ...

• maps

• list of home adresses for post cards, email, ...

• diary

• 2 pens

• emergency bag with copies of all important papers and some money (€)

 

Clothes

• bike shorts

• bike trousers

• short-armed jersey

• long-armed jersey

• raincoat

• bike under-shirt

• 3 pants

• 3 pair of socks

• 2 T-Shirts

• 1 jeans

• 1 pair of bike shoes

• 1 pullover

• 1 scarf

• 1 cap

• 1 pair of bike gloves

• sunglasses

• trunks

 

Camping

• tent
• isolation mat
• sleeping bag
• flashlight + batteries
• string
• lighter + matches

 

Everyday life

• Penaten botty cream

• Nivea skin cream 

• suntan lotion

• shampoo

• tooth brush

• tooth paste

• shaving-things; wet shave

• towel

• paper handkerchiefs

• toilet paper

 

Food

• 2l water

• 3l drinks; ice tea, Sprite

• bread, sausages, cheese, vegetables, fruits

• 1 pack of nuts, dryed fruits, ... for an emergency

• special chewing gums for the teeth; you don't get a dryed out mouth while you're riding the bike

 

Medicin

• protection against insects; Autan was very good

• disinfectant

• pain-killer; Aspirin

• sticking-plaster

• gauze bandages

• Hansaplast

• scissors

• aids gloves

• mineral and vitamin pills and pills against diarrhoea

 

Tools / Spares

• repair outfit

• pneumatic pump; my bikers dream with foot pedal was very good, no bend valves and no aching muscles but great pressure in the tire

• 2 tubes

• 2 pairs of brake blocks

• set of spanners + screwdrivers

• wires

 

Other things

• 1 cigarre; I don't smoke but this cigarre was a trophy. I took it from Donaueschingen to Sulina and smoked it there as a sign of triumph.

• photograph equipment: camera, films - not enough of course, batteries