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Guide
for Travelling Fencers
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Travelling with Equipment
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BAGGAGE ALLOWANCE : make sure you have sufficient baggage allowance on all the aeroplanes you are travelling on to cover your equipment. |
| 2. | PACK CAREFULLY : pack equipment so it cannot be damaged - baggage handlers may throw baggage around irrespective of any fragile labels!! |
| 3. | LOCK BAGGAGE : get a good luggage lock to prevent items being stolen from your bags whilst they are in transit |
| 4. | CONNECTION TIMES : allow plenty of time to make connections to give your luggage enough time to make it too! |
| 5. | AMSTERDAM : if you are connecting via Amsterdam (or have an unavoidably short connection time) and are competing the next day, think about putting your as much of your equipment as possible into your hand luggage. eg shoes, jacket, breeches, glove. It is easy enough to borrow the odd weapon, body wire etc but fencing shoes, jacket, breeches can be more difficult. |