Traveler's Guide to The Axe.
Reduce the Bulk of the Guidebooks
Reduce the Bulk of the Guidebooks
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Step one. Cut up the books.
- Separate out the countries (as in Scandinavian guidebooks that cover Norway, Sweden and Finland); or, if you are going to Northern Germany and still have the book from going to Southern Germany, slice out the south and leave it home.
- Find your big serrated kitchen knife and saw those books right down the binding. Make piles. Denmark here, Sweden there, Northern Germany there.
- Go ahead. Saw-saw. Unnnh. Saw-saw. Unnnh. Saw-saw. Unnnh. Saw-saw = Ahhhh. Your lumbar region will be grateful you did.
Step two. Clip the book remains back together with a big metal office clip and a rubber band. Then bag them.
- To each country baggie, add the country maps.
- If you got an advance ferry reservation (some delays are not worth it), make a copy and put that in there, too.
- Have extra baggies so you can jam all the receipts in there also. Throw out no receipts. None.
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