The best-dressed guests we know pack the least. After years of watching travellers arrive with three suitcases and leave having worn a single shirt, we asked our hosts what they would bring.
The essentials
A linen shirt that looks better creased. One pair of shoes you can walk, swim and dine in. A paperback you have been meaning to read for five years. A small knife for fruit at the market. And a notebook — not for plans, but for the things you would otherwise forget.
Everything else, we promise, can be borrowed, bought or done without.