Emptying My Backpack After 1.5 Years Travelling

Good morning and welcome to my home. It's actually my dad's house and it's his new house because when I left he was living somewhere else because it was a year and a half ago and things change but it's been so good being back. I've managed to see and surprise loads of my friends which have been so cool and getting to hang out with them has been awesome but now I need to do something that I'm really not looking forward to which is unpack my backpack but at least it means you get to see what's been in my backpack for the last year and a half. All right, let's go. Right, so backpack number one, dirty clothes, dirty clothes, dirty clothes, dirty clothes, sleeping bag liner. This is somewhere, something that saved me time and time again. It's a thin sleeping bag liner, goes in the bottom of your bag, wraps up, done. Jacket, I hung on to for ages. Had this for like a year and a half and it saved me in Oslo. Lonely planet, I barely ever use it but I had one, came in handy sometimes. Lonely planet, book, book, dirty clothes, toothbrush, book, gel, toothbrush, deodorant. Cool, where'd that come from? Aha, my GoPro box with stuff in it. I forgot I had that. Dirty clothes, whiskey. I don't know what that's for. Toilet paper, always have toilet paper, you never know. This is cool. I had this as well. This was a gift I got at some point. It's a Buddha. Wait, it focuses. There you go, that's better. Buddha in a piece of glass. Got that for Christmas last year so I hung on to it. An old spare camera, I don't even know if that works. No. GoPro strap, dirty clothes, some sort of lead. My old GorillaPod that I lost the top bit for, it's rubbish. My old GoPro pole, doesn't work anymore. Rubbish, lots of rubbish. Some weird thing that I got given when I was working in Australia. What else? My Vera pen, last shave, old broken sunglasses. Cool. My band from staying in the hostel in Australia that you had to wait out to get in, didn't even know I had that. So I found two cool little things that I forgot to hang on to. One is this bracelet here, which is a redemption bracelet and it was given to me by the pastor in the orphanage in the Philippines. So it was falling apart but I decided to hang on to it because it meant something to me. And this is the other little thing I found. It's a tiny little, if you guys ever watched Dragon Vegeta. I found him on the beach in Indonesia, just like buried among the sand. When I was with someone I care about, so I kept it. Anyway, onwards. Some Philippines coins. This, look at that. This is a phone I just found in my bag. Wow. Actually, I only kept that because a couple of nights in Thailand, I would use this to go out and go up to people and say, excuse me, can you take a photo of us please? Stupid. I kept it anyway. And then just random toiletries. Right. So the lesson from that big bag is I've had it for ages, barely emptied it in the last year. And most of it you don't need at all. Most of it I've barely used, mainly clothes. I needed clothes. I'm not using my cameras and stuff, but just clothes, a few toiletries, everything else you can buy on the way. And even, you know, look at all that. I don't need half of it. You really don't need a lot of stuff. Right. And now I'm going to move on to. Okay. So extension lead, some sunflowers from Bangkok. My DSLR that I bought in Bangkok. My laptop case, my laptop is downstairs. My new GorillaPod, which is awesome. My passport. That's something you need. Some noodles I brought with me from Thailand to Oslo, which isn't always too expensive. So I brought food with me. GoPro, head strap, camera I'm filming with right now, that's surprisingly working again. I don't know why. Document folder, external hard drive, lots of random rubbish. Old school iPod, sunglasses, more sunglasses, more coins. And that is just about it. That is everything I've needed or way more than I needed to travel for a long time. Now I guess I best clean this up. Okay. Just about done. Fully unpacked. Done. So what was the point in that? And what can you learn from it? Firstly, I needed to unpack anyway, so I may as well show you it. But also one of the main things I learned while traveling, one of the main things I've learned over the last year and a half is you don't need really anything. You need some clothes, but you can buy them on the way. You need your passport and you need a bank card. So you need an ID and you need a way of getting money. Other than that, everything else you can buy. Everything I have in that backpack, anything is anything I started with. There's definitely not any clothes I started with, but everything else can be replaced. Really, I can't stress it enough. The first time I went away, I packed so much stuff and like, you think I need this, I need that, I need this and you pack loads and then you just go away with too much and end up checking stuff away. So if you are thinking about doing it, don't worry, pack minimum. Have a smaller backpack than you think you need and you'll be fine. Right, so what now? Haribo first. I love this. But secondly, I'm going to go outside because I haven't been outside today yet. So I'm going to go and show you a little bit of my hometown. Let's go. So I'm just walking across a field in the English countryside at the moment, which is, you know, that's fairly normal to me, but I guess for some of you watching, that's like completely different. This was how I grew up. You don't really appreciate it until you come back after being somewhere else, I think. Yeah, this is nice. Cold, but nice. Whoa, I disturbed the sheep. Okay, I should go. Oh wow, they're not happy. Dude, this is bizarre. Look how many sheep there are. What? It's weird. All right, all right, I'm going. Wow, I did not expect that. Right, anyway, I'll leave them to it and I'll leave you there, I guess. That was weird. So anyway, thanks for watching and this is my life.