A quart into a pint pot - Extraordinary Places

Houdini and a coffin – phah. The TARDIS, yeah, yeah. Geoff Nimmo, our gear for a year and a 2CV – now THAT is a magic trick worth seeing.

Read on and you might even win something!

So, this is all we own.

ALL WE OWN (2)

Yes, we did actually unpack it all and arrange it – for YOU! Now you too can see just how many underpants and how much nail varnish you need to travel the world!

This is all we own, packed into bags.

ALL WE PACKED

This is the boot (trunk if you are American) of our 2CV – with 6 eggs and a coffee pot for scale.

ALL WE HAVE ROOM FOR IN THE BOOT

All we own goes in there and on the back seat…. It really does. See!

ALL WE STACKED

Sardines quiver at the mention of Geoff Nimmo’s name.

We are often asked how we decided what to pack, so just for fun, we thought we would not just show you all we are travelling with on our Grand Tour, but give you a chance to profit too.

In the spirit of ‘guess the weight of the pig” – we challenge you to guess the amount in the ugly duck! Using the first photo from this blog and the close-ups below, see if you can guess (or count if you have small children you can bribe, are off work sick or have no friends and nothing else to do) how many items we fit into Charlie Charleston.

We are going to run this little competition until the end of June, and whoever gets closest to the number will get a nice bottle of whiskey/wine/perfume/video/book or something else of their choosing.

Post your number in the comment section below, or on our Facebook page. In the spirit of full disclosure, we should add that since these photographs were taken, we have bought a toaster, a pressure cooker, two new therma-rests, two camel and goat hair blankets and a hot water bottle (there was still snow on the Atlas mountains), but thankfully Geoff did get rid of five pairs of socks to make room.