Plan the trip. Then take it home.
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The Europe Packing Guide - Everything Before You Lock the Door

$93.91 MXN (plus tax)

Every packing list stops at the suitcase. 

Then you come home to a dead plant, a letterbox stuffed to the hinge, and a heating system that ran for eleven days in an empty house.

This covers both: the bag, and the house you're leaving behind.

WHAT THIS IS

24 pages. Not a list — the list is the free printable page. This is the version that explains every line on it: why it's there, how much of it, what happens if you skip it, and what changes depending on which country you're going to.

THE PART THAT'S ACTUALLY DIFFERENT

Leaving the house.

Water at the main. Gas. Heating set for an empty house rather than switched off, which is not the same decision in January as in July. The fridge. Bins, because eleven days matters. Timers on two lamps rather than one. Plants, and the method that works for a two-week trip. Mail and parcels. A key with someone you trust, and what to tell them. A photograph of the meter reading before you go. And the window everyone forgets, which is the bathroom one.

No travel guide covers this. Every traveller deals with it.

POWER, PROPERLY

Europe runs 220–240V against America's 120 — and the plug is not the same across the continent. France takes Type E. Italy takes Type L and F. Spain takes Type F. The UK takes Type G and nothing else.

If your trip includes London and Paris you need two adapters, and nobody mentions it until you're in a hotel room with a dead phone.

Your hair dryer or straightener: where to find dual voltage on the label, and what happens if it isn't there.

CARRY IT, OR BUY IT THERE

The pharmacy list split in two — what to carry, and what is easier and cheaper once you arrive.

Sunscreen, toiletries and an umbrella cost less in any European supermarket than the weight costs you at the airport. And a short list of things that are genuinely hard to find and should go in the bag.

THE TIMELINE

90 days, 60, 30, 7, and the last 24 hours. Each one has its own set of items, because some of this stops being possible if you leave it late, and the page tells you which.

DESTINATION-SPECIFIC ADDITIONS

Water shoes for the Riviera, where the beaches are smooth grey stones.
Shoulders and knees covered for Italian churches, enforced at the door.
A bag that closes properly, for the pickpocket setups in the Paris guide. Coins, because some public toilets and most station lockers still want them.

THE SECTION NOBODY ELSE WRITES

What to leave at home.

Half of overpacking is things people bring because a list told them to. This tells you what to take back out — the items you'll carry across four countries and never open, and the ones that cost less to replace on arrival than to fly with.

Same principle as the city guides: the useful part is what you're told NOT to do.


FORMAT

Instant PDF download, 24 pages, A5, with a linked contents page. Built to be read on a phone while you're standing over an open suitcase.

WHO IT'S FOR

Anyone whose trip is close enough that the suitcase is out, and who would rather not find out about the plug, the voltage or the heating after they've landed.

If you only want the checklist itself, take the free printable page instead, it's one page and it costs nothing. This is the version that tells you why.