Packing list - nail it.

Whenever I’m putting together a packing list (and what an art that is - just ask Thorn Tree stalwart Packing List Geoff), just about the first thing on my list is nail scissors, a legacy of my first backpacking trip. I’d just never thought to pack them, I was too cheap to buy them, and my toenails were getting to Chinese Mandarin levels. I’ll never forget the ecstasy when, having been lent some clippers by a sympathetic traveller at an open-air restaurant in Venice, I scuttled to the bathrooms and set about turning my feet from eagle back to human.

So: rose cream, silk travel sheet, down booties - nail clippers. They’re the stars in my firmament.

-Cherry Washington

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