Don’t bring it if you can’t carry it.

Seriously, I mean it. If you can’t lift your own suitcase even the smallest amount, don’t take it on holiday and DEFINITELY don’t take it travelling.

It’s bad enough that it’s a suitcase in the first place if it’s so big you can’t fit it down the aisle of a bus, boat, train or whatever else you happen to be on since that just makes everyone else have to wait. But at least if you’re going to do it, MAKE SURE YOU CAN LIFT IT.

I’m not even talking about being able to lift it above you head or anything fancy like that, just off the floor. That seems like a pretty essential requirement in my mind, but clearly not to a surprisingly large amount of people if quite far flung backpacker places.

In the space of a day I met one person with a wheelie bag that was 3 quarters the height of them and another with one that didn’t look as large, but that I later found out weighed about half as much as I do and I’m 5″8′, I’m not exactly petite.

I mean seriously. That’s not even like its a little bit too big or too heavy for you to lift, that’s just ridiculous.

One of the girls couldn’t even seem to get enough strength to wheel it let alone even lift it half an inch off the ground.

And yes I do hate that all the people I’ve seen doing this are female. I almost feel the need to chuck out half the stuff from my 15kg bag so I then have a really small one to help counteract the stereotypes that they’re causing to be formed.