Over at Nomad4ever.com, roving travel writer Steve James lays out his list of things you really shouldn’t take backpacking.

These include:

A huge backpack, jeans, a sleeping bag, hiking boots, a laptop, an SLR camera and a hypochondriac’s medicine cabinet (see below).

Before finishing up with: a Pacsafe, a mosquito net and finally, a guitar.

HostelBloggers are right behind him on a few of those items (although we’re not quite sure where his hatred of pacsafes comes from).

Whether or not we agree with his reasoning over the last choice - ”Because there is a common consensus that people who travel with guitars are w@nkers” – we couldn’t possibly say one way or the other…