Well I've just spent the day prepping the bikes and getting all the gear packed up ready for the ferry on Thursday. I'm on a train to King's Cross now for 3 days working in that there London. As will eventually be illustrated after I've posted some photos we have a mind boggling amount of stuff. Thorn tandem has 4 panniers, 30L rack bag & bar bag. Isla Bike has 2 panniers, small rack pack & bar bag. The Helios is in cargo bike mode and has 4 panniers and massive holdall on the cargo rack.
Quite exessive by the standards of anyone of this parish however Mrs B and our 15 year old daughter were quite horrified at the suggestion that 'surely you can live out of one pannier for 3 weeks?' So now we each have 1 large and 1 small pannier for personal stuff. Tents, matts, bags, kitchen kit and other such gubbins occupy the holdalls and 2 remaining panniers. Oh and we're also carrying the bits nessesary to convert the Helios back into tandem mode for our week at the Tandem Rally in Germany.
All I need to do now is get some open source maps for Holland and Germany onto the Garmin.