Lapland hand luggage only in December sounds doable, right up until the winter jacket goes into the backpack. It bloats any bag, and Finnair caps cabin bag plus small bag at 8 kg combined in Economy. Then there's the cold: Visit Finland puts the average winter temperature in Finnish Lapland at...
Lena Brandt
Monday morning at the gate in Munich. The guy ahead of me has two suitcases and a garment bag over one arm, and he already looks finished. I've got a trolley. That's it. Five cities, five days, carry-on only. Whether that was a smart idea, honestly, I had no clue yet at that point.
Lena Brandt
The belt in Düsseldorf was running empty by then. Everyone else from my flight had already left. With their bags.
Lena Brandt
The Railjet to Prague leaves Vienna just after seven in the morning. On January 1st. Whoever plans that either has a system or hasn't slept.
Tobias Weßling
The charging cable was still lying on the bed when the case was already shut. That's the moment it clicked. On a digital detox vacation you don't just leave the phone behind. You leave behind everything that hangs off the phone. No wall plug, no second cable, no power bank, no adapter for the...
Tobias Weßling
I was standing at the gate with a 1.5-litre water bottle sticking out of my backpack, completely relaxed about it. CT scanner at the airport, liquids up to 2 litres allowed, I had read that two weeks earlier. At the first security check it was true. Two hours later, at my connection, the bottle...
Lena Brandt
Eighteen litres. That is the whole allowance, mathematically, once a bag measures exactly 40x30x15 cm, and that measurement is now the only free piece of baggage in Lufthansa's cheapest short and medium haul fare. So 40x30x15 hand luggage means one bag, under the seat in front, and nothing else.
Lena Brandt
My friend Lena waited 38 minutes at the baggage carousel in Split. I was already sitting at the harbor with my first coffee. The difference? She'd checked a 23-kilo suitcase. I had everything in a carry-on backpack. Ten clothing items for 14 days in Croatia.
Tobias Weßling
In July 2025 I put a suitcase on the belt in Frankfurt for the last time. Twelve flights later, one year gone, six countries, and still the same cabin trolley.
Miriam Kohl
The baggage belt in Palma was still turning. Just empty. There I stood, half past ten at night, the Condor flight from Frankfurt had landed an hour earlier, and around me the last passengers were drifting toward the exit with their bags. My suitcase never arrived in Mallorca? Couldn't be. I...
Tobias Weßling
Frankfurt Airport, Terminal 2. One partner is standing at the check-in counter trying to heave a 28-kilo suitcase onto the scale – not an easy task with hip problems. A scene many couples with joint issues know all too well.
Lena Brandt
Gate in Dusseldorf, Ryanair flight to Split, 6:20 AM. On one side, a guy, maybe 22, wearing a backpack almost as tall as him. On the other, someone in their 40s with one 40-liter backpack as carry-on. The look that gets, roughly translated: out of your mind.
Lena Brandt
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