Well I made it through the check-in, which quite surprises me really. I had two huge bags which weighed 25 kg each (the small advantages of being a frequent traveller ois that you can have 2 x 23kg with Austrian Air). Then I also have a rucksack which weighs another 11 kg and contains my whole office for the next 3 months. Chargers, notebook, extra notebook batteries, cables, headphones, an echo-sounder, books, external hard-disks, boat documents, insurance certificates, pens and pencils, usb-sticks, and a pair of scissors. Obviously it no longer contains a pair of scissors! But what a job to unpack everything in front of the gazing public.
Must dash – boarding in 15 minutes.
scissors
At least it wasn’t a complete set of kitchen knives. That would have been a really stupid thing to have in your hand baggage.