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Trinity College student and Irish Examiner columnist Jane Cowan photographed at her home in Dunshaughlin, County Meath. Picture: Barry Cronin.

When I went abroad for six weeks last summer, I packed my suitcase in about 20 minutes.

Toothbrush, underwear, makeup remover and a lip balm. Those are my essentials. Everything else, I could basically manage without. Of course, I threw in some clothes, a bottle of factor 50, a hairbrush.