On 5 January 1986, the Observer packed its bags for a travel special, first stopping to ask some seasoned travellers what always went in theirs. Adventurer Christina Dodwell took a 2oz hammock and family photos, but never a gun: ‘In a lot of places life is cheap and guns are valuable.’ Tight-jeaned travel journalist Michael Wood took a Swiss Army Knife (‘Mainly for pulling wine corks’) and august travel writer Eric Newby a hat ‘from an imperial hatmakers in Venice’.
