Itinerary support for two weeks in Puglia in May 2025

[rugbyexpat]

Thanks Ian for the great practical ideas, before my wife past in mid 2023 we always travelled with everything we needed and we picked a car up from whatever arrival airport and dropped it back there, so bags were easy to handle. On my trips since then, being on my own, I am using more trains and when convenient public transport or excursions, but the bags need to be handled much more.
I am renting a car for 10 days of this trip to Puglia and other times, trains and public transport if convenient and timely, so thought it's time to downsize .
My return trip about a week ago from Cardiff to Dublin to Philadelphia to Dallas reminded me to start now. In Dublin I had two bookings, one to PHL and one to DFW but the airline wouldn't merge them and there was not the time between flights to pick up bags and clear security and then check-in for next flight with bag to get on next flight. So I needed to carry my bags, hence the plea for some ideas.
Thanks again Ian, take care

 

[Tina]

Be ruthless and I mean ruthless about what you take. I read a comment somewhere about packing light which said if you take very few clothes on a holiday you will get really fed up of them, but you won't wish you'd taken more.....this is so true! We spent a week in Spain mid-Jan to mid-Feb with (for two people, not each), one 40x55x20cm carry on and two small backpacks 40x20x25. It made transits by train, bus, taxi, everything, much less tiring. You can use hotel shampoo or soap to handwash small essentials like underwear/socks.
I hope you have a great time!