12 Surprising Items You Should Avoid Bringing To Europe

12. All Your Physical Copies of Reservations (Digitize & Secure)

While printouts offer a backup, carrying a thick binder of every hotel reservation, train ticket, and tour confirmation is bulky and unnecessary. Avoid bringing excessive physical copies of documents. Instead, keep digital copies organized in cloud storage (Google Drive, Dropbox), emailed to yourself, and accessible offline on your phone or tablet. For critical documents like your passport, keep one physical photocopy separate from the original, but rely primarily on digital backups for convenience and enhanced security against loss or theft.